HLTC23H3 Lecture 8: Nutrition, Growth and Long-Term Consequences II
Document Summary
Behavioural/intellectual consequences: reduced activity, disengaged no energy to interact with peers behaviours of family members lead to smothering the child from doing anything because these children are poor and cant do what other children can. Intellectual performance depends on many factors suggested by brown and pollitt (1996 lower expectations of malnourished children children are more lethargic behavioural issues, perception issues, and behavioural issues. Poverty, malnutrition and child neglect child neglect and abuse as a consequence of malnutrition ex: brazil favelas dichotomy between the very rich and the very poor. Favelas: ghettos very dense and populated, yet urban and large in size. Malnutrition leads to a larger cultural consequence and how they perceive a children. Brazilian mothers nurtured those children who they thought would live and contribute to their lives, and neglected the other ones. Reaction to the environment of high infant mortality.
