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TIL the brain of a five-year-old child uses 50% of their body’s energy expenditure, rising to 2/3 while resting, which leads to a decline in rate of weight gain. The rate of energy needed for brain development then declines with age and the rate of weight gain resumes in parallel with the brain

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