Dietary Diversity Is Positively Associated with Deviation from Expected Height in Rural Nepal.

CONCLUSIONS: Increasing dietary diversity for children reduces the risk of stunting and improves growth after growth faltering. Future efforts should be directed at enabling families in food-insecure areas to feed their children a more diverse diet. PMID: 27306894 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]

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Source: Rural Remote Health - June 14, 2016 Category: Rural Health Authors: Busert LK, Neuman M, Rehfuess EA, Dulal S, Harthan J, Chaube SS, Bhandari B, Costello H, Costello A, Manandhar DS, Saville NM Tags: J Nutr Source Type: research