TY  - JOUR
T1  - MEdical news
Y1  - 1969/10/06
N1  - 10.1001/jama.1969.03160270013003
JO  - JAMA
SP  - 17
EP  - 28
VL  - 210
IS  - 1
N2  - New Evidence Links Malnutrition, Mental Growth 
    The possibility that severe malnutrition may adversely influence mental development has been suspected for at least 15 years. Evidence of a clear-cut relationship between nutritional deficiencies and retarded mental development, has been lacking, however.Investigators now appear to have compiled evidence which raises the suspicion of mental damage caused by some forms of malnutrition— such as kwashiorkor and marasmus —to a high degree of probability. Significantly, the best evidence exists in the case of marasmus, a protein-calorie deficiency disease of infants and young children which is believed to be increasing in developing nations at about the same rate as urbanization.Some of the new findings were presented at the VIIIth International Congress of Nutrition held in Prague, Czechoslovakia.Among them:Richard H. Barnes, PhD, and colleagues from Cornell University, Ithaca, New York, told of work in animals which indicates that severe malnutrition alone,
SN  - 0098-7484
M3  - doi: 10.1001/jama.1969.03160270013003
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1001/jama.1969.03160270013003
ER  -