SOC349H5 Chapter Notes - Chapter 4: Malnutrition
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The world"s malnourished kids don"t need a burger - notes. Almost one-quarter of all children worldwide are stunted from malnutrition. Malnourishment results in not only physical issues (smaller bodies/frames), but also impaired brain development: mental impairment to an extent that it is visible in brain scans. Calories aren"t the problem micronutrients are. Malnutrition is the underlying cause of 45 percent of deaths in children under 5, yet less than 1 percent of global foreign assistance goes to dressing undernutrition .
