The Global Cost of Childhood Malnutrition
Deep Dish on Global Affairs
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The Importance of Nutrition in Child Development
The impact of a prolonged exposure to that or suffering from that leads to stunting. And medical, the scientific academic definition of stunting is too short for age. In terms of a person's height that they're not growing tall. So eventually there's hereditary factors that come into that as a child and the person grows. But what I found in this, and then what so many people were telling me about, is that, yeah, that might be the outward manifestation that you can see.
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