title: Lipid-based nutrient supplements: how can they combat child malnutrition?
abstract: Kathryn Dewey and Mary Arimond discuss new research in PLOS Medicine that assesses the effect of blanket provision of ready-to-use supplementary food to children at high risk of malnutrition in Chad, and highlight some of the challenges of investigating the efficacy of supplementary foods for malnourished children.
authors.affiliation: University of California, Davis, Davis, California, United States of America. kgdewey@ucdavis.edu
authors.forename: Kathryn G
authors.initials: KG
authors.lastname: Dewey
authors.forename: Mary
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Arimond
mesh_terms: D019587:Dietary Supplements; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D009752:Nutritional Status