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Nutrition, Environment, and Behavioral Development

Nutrition, Environment, and Behavioral Development During the past 15 years, a number of studies involving several different scientific disciplines have associated malnutrition imposed during a critical period of development and permanent changes in brain structure and func­ tion. The implications of the observations in a world in which hundreds of millions of children have been and are continuing to be nutritionally deprived in infancy are obvious. Not only are they to be handicapped, but the result­ ing handicap may well prevent them from extricating themselves from the conditions which breed malnutrition, and therefore their children are at risk of suffering the same handicap. Thus, poverty results in undernutrition which causes retarded brain growth and function which limits earning capabilities which lead again to undernutrition. This is the vicious cycle first pointed out by Cravioto (1). This association of undernutrition and faulty development has been made in complex human situations and thus has not allowed isolation of malnutri­ tion as the only significant variable. Malnutrition occurs in a milieu of low socioeconomic status, reduced education, poor sanitary conditions, and is further complicated by recurrent and severe infections. These children, then, are exposed during their early formative life to a variety of complex environ­ mental http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Annual Review of Medicine Annual Reviews

Nutrition, Environment, and Behavioral Development

Annual Review of Medicine , Volume 23 (1) – Feb 1, 1972

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Publisher
Annual Reviews
Copyright
Copyright 1972 Annual Reviews. All rights reserved
Subject
Review Articles
ISSN
0066-4219
eISSN
1545-326X
DOI
10.1146/annurev.me.23.020172.001053
pmid
4566478
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Abstract

During the past 15 years, a number of studies involving several different scientific disciplines have associated malnutrition imposed during a critical period of development and permanent changes in brain structure and func­ tion. The implications of the observations in a world in which hundreds of millions of children have been and are continuing to be nutritionally deprived in infancy are obvious. Not only are they to be handicapped, but the result­ ing handicap may well prevent them from extricating themselves from the conditions which breed malnutrition, and therefore their children are at risk of suffering the same handicap. Thus, poverty results in undernutrition which causes retarded brain growth and function which limits earning capabilities which lead again to undernutrition. This is the vicious cycle first pointed out by Cravioto (1). This association of undernutrition and faulty development has been made in complex human situations and thus has not allowed isolation of malnutri­ tion as the only significant variable. Malnutrition occurs in a milieu of low socioeconomic status, reduced education, poor sanitary conditions, and is further complicated by recurrent and severe infections. These children, then, are exposed during their early formative life to a variety of complex environ­ mental

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Annual Review of MedicineAnnual Reviews

Published: Feb 1, 1972

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