Malnutrition and neurological Problems among children in the developing world

Malnutrition is a big challenge to most of developing and low income countries. It not only results in death of people, and especially children, but those who survive face severe mental and other physical health problems. In addition, malnutrition not only brings sufferings to families but also great loss to the economy of the country as malnourished people develop brain and other health disorders, and therefore, they cannot be productive individuals of society.1 The worldwide prevalence of severe malnutrition in children is very high and results in around 1 million deaths each year.
Source: Seminars in Pediatric Neurology - Category: Neurology Authors: Source Type: research