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An extremely cynical study
Shatrugna, Veena
Shatrugna, Veena
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"The role of nutrition in the rehabilitation of kwashiorkor and marasmus (severe forms of malnutrition) had been established as far back as 1956 (1, 3). It had also been recognised that …“Indeed the growth failure observed in these cases may actually be a means of adaptation of the organism (sic) to protein inadequacy” and that “the superimposition of an acute infective episode is probably necessary to tip the children into the florid state of kwashiorkor, etc.” The authors further state that “…severe malnutrition decreases often after the ages of 3- 5 because children develop greater immunity to infections of the lung and the gastrointestinal tract.” This clearly explains the impact of infection on undernutrition."
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2007-04
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