The relationship between scholastic progress and nutritional status. Part II. A one-year follow-up study.
A 1-year follow-up study was conducted on a group of Indian children who were initially identified as being grossly anthropometrically stunted, and who had severe problems in reading after having attended school for 1 year. It was found that after an additional year's schooling virtually no improvement, either in the ability to read or in anthropometric status, had occurred. It is suggested that as a matter of urgency educationists, sociologists and physiologists should confer to take cognizance of the recent, extremely important findings pertaining to permanent intellectual stunting resulting from chronic malnutrition of infants up to their 4th postnatal year.
D000124:Achievement; D001827:Body Height; D001835:Body Weight; D002648:Child; D005260:Female; D005500:Follow-Up Studies; D006801:Humans; D007194:India / Q000208:ethnology; D007859:Learning Disabilities / Q000209:etiology; D008297:Male; D009748:Nutrition Disorders / Q000150:complications; D011932:Reading; D013019:South Africa