Malnutrition In Young Women Can Leave Communities Stuck In A Poverty Trap

Maternal and child under-nutrition have a life-long impact on the health and prospects of the child, potentially affecting future generations. An international collaboration of scientists using five long-standing population studies looking at nutrition, health and human capital in developing and middle-income countries has found that the impact of malnourishment in young mothers and their babies has consequences well beyond infant health and mortality.

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Filed under: Nutrition / Diet on January 29th, 2008