The Indian Journal of Nutrition and Dietetics

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Malnutrition and Mental Development:A Critical Review


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Earlier reviews of the existing evidence for the supposition that malnutrition causes permanent mental retardation in man found that the existing evidence was inconclusive, although many articles in newspapers and magazines, and even in scientific journals, inferred that children of all ages had been permanently impaired mentally by malnutrition.
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Rose E. Frisch
Harvard Center for Population Studies, United States

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Earlier reviews of the existing evidence for the supposition that malnutrition causes permanent mental retardation in man found that the existing evidence was inconclusive, although many articles in newspapers and magazines, and even in scientific journals, inferred that children of all ages had been permanently impaired mentally by malnutrition.