HLTC23H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Developmental Disability, Atole, Executive Functions
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Ecological reality of poverty: have to look at spheres of influence, spatial levels, beyond childhood, over time help strategize for life and shit, unique life history. What strategies used for growth and development, reproductive events, etc. Inevitable trade-offs that occur in growth and reproduction. Macronutrients: larger amounts needed, critical for providing energy (calories/joules) Micronutrients: smaller amounts required, critical for regulating biological functions. Malnutrition: not enough/too much of either macro or micro, problem of distribution, but also production, since there is variability in the ability to produce and distribute food, measure of ecological failure. Reflects population s inability to adapt to its environment: consequences: Reduced fecundity (potential kids) and fertility (realized kids) in women. Increased/early mortality: growth faltering is not only product of energy deficiency; also: protein, zinc, calcium, sulfur, iron, repeated infections reduce apetite and absorption of nutrients in gut more malnourished. Infections+malnourishment=deadly, cause even if you get enough supplementation, you can t absorb it.
