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The Biological Bases: Malnutrition and Behavioral Development by Merrill S. Read - 1972It has long been recognized that nutritional deficiencies, either
of individual nutrients or of total food intake, retard physical
growth and delay sexual maturation. Similarly, malnutrition and
infection have synergistic actions thus adding to their effects on the
individual. In the past fifteen years attention has focused on the possibility
that malnutrition in early infancy and childhood may also
adversely influence behavioral and intellectual development. If
true, this will have serious consequences for technological development,
for educational programs, and for achievement of each individual's
inherent capacity to contribute to society.To view the full-text for this article you must be signed-in with the appropriate membership. Please review your options below: | This article originally appeared as NSSE Yearbook Vol 71, No. 2. |
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- Merrill Read
National Institute of Child Health and Human Development
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MERRILL S. READ works at the Growth and Development Branch of the National Institute of Child Health
and Human Development.
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