Why is nutrition relevant to child health and development?
Poor nutrition increases young children’s risk of contracting illnesses and compromises their immune systems, creating a downward cycle in which children lose weight with each illness; because the family often has no extra food (or money to buy it) to build them back up again, they are left malnourished and more susceptible to the next illness, which is often more serious and leads to more depletion, so that children end up in the hospital suffering from the infection-malnutrition cycle.
