Can poor nutrition in preschoolers affect brain development?
It has been found that stunting and poor nutrition between 12-36 months is associated with poor mental development and lower school grades in middle childhood. How does poor nutrition in a preschooler affect the weight in its offspring? Undernourished girls tend to become short adults and thus are more likely to have small children. Thus, adequate nutrition during critical periods of growth in girls helps to achieve proper adult height which may in turn prevent low birth weight in the offspring. Is high cholesterol problem in adults also related to poor nutrition as a child? Though malnutrition per se is not related to unhealthy cholesterol problems as an adult, it may be more related to high fat content and eating of junk food (food highly saturated with fat) that can lead to overweight problems and high cholesterol. Is diabetes related to nutrition in childhood? Research has shown that lower birth weight is associated with diabetes in adults. A study from India found that diabetes wa
