Tag: Undernutrition

  • Nation & World

    Microbial menace

    A new study has shown that — under certain conditions — gut microbes can consume enough of a key nutrient to cause a deficiency in their hosts.

    3 minutes
    E. coli
  • Nation & World

    Economic growth no cure for child undernutrition

    A large study of child growth patterns in 36 developing countries finds that, contrary to widely held beliefs, economic growth has little to no effect on the nutritional status of the world’s poorest children.

    3 minutes
  • Nation & World

    Twin dangers: Malnutrition and obesity

    Experts in nutrition gathered at Harvard Medical School to discuss the emerging “double burden” of malnutrition and obesity that is starting to affect the developing world.

    4 minutes