For Malnourished Boys, Earliest Days a Critical Window for Cognitive Development
In rural Nicaragua where malnutrition is widespread, improved nutrition and health care during a boy’s first 1,000 days (from the beginning of his mother’s pregnancy to about age 2) has a lasting positive impact on cognitive development and learning, new research finds. “The timing of the intervention was critical,” said Tania Barham of the University…
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