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This is a surprising result, because women in developed countries have become taller thanks to better nutrition, and are having children later in life for many reasons, some of them cultural.
Personal decisions, nutrition, income level, education, and religious affiliation all enter the mix.
If evolution took its steady course and changed the genetic basis of height and age at first birth, we might not see women ten generations later who were shorter and matured earlier, for the effects of nutrition and culture could more than compensate for the genetic change.
The key to meeting the Millennium Development Goals in poor countries is an increase in investment in people (health, education, nutrition, and family planning), the environment (water and sanitation, soils, forests, and biodiversity), and infrastructure (roads, power, and ports).
I must confess that I was appalled at their ignorance of nutrition, psychology, game dynamics, and even women’s magazines.
In the field of diet and nutrition, there is a fundamental debate between calorie counters and proponents of specific diets, whether low-fat, low-carbohydrate, or buy-my-line-of-expensive-formulated-products.
Even as it becomes easier to see and care for people lying injured on the side of the virtual highway, it becomes harder to perceive and easier to ignore the “road” conditions that caused their injuries – poor nutrition, poverty, inadequate prenatal care, corruption, diversion of resources, and the like.
Poverty, ignorance, poor nutrition, and inadequate health care exist almost everywhere; the path of least effort – and perhaps greatest effectiveness – may start at home.
And we now have stronger information for other gender targets when they compete with targets related to nutrition, health, poverty, and the environment.
Furthermore, approximately half of the 10.9 million children who die each year do so as a result of poor nutrition, while more than 1.4 billion adults and 40 million children are overweight or obese.
We achieve this - or not - through a combination of virtues such as fortitude in the face of relentless training, physical courage as we persevere through pain, and cleverness when we outsmart our opponents, along with other factors such as helpful coaching, optimized equipment, and sound nutrition.
The other factors - equipment, coaching, and nutrition - contribute to an athlete's success but don't evoke the same awe or esteem.
Fully one in three preventable deaths among young children worldwide – up to 2.5 million each year – are the result of inadequate nutrition.
To combat this problem, we need a multi-pronged approach that marshals all available resources to ensure good nutrition among children.
In each village, a woman skilled in communication will teach families how to prepare balanced meals and ensure adequate nutrition for children.
Providing proper nutrition in a child’s first thousand days is particularly important.
Last year, the Copenhagen Consensus – an esteemed panel of economists including several Nobel Laureates – ranked child nutrition as the top priority on its list of cost-effective investments that would improve global welfare.
Leaders from rich and poor countries, foundations, non-governmental organizations, and private industry will gather to make specific commitments to invest in nutrition.
And many people now recognize that controlling, and eventually eliminating, NTDs will be essential for achieving the Sustainable Development Goals, which apply to such diverse areas as nutrition, education, health, water, sanitation and hygiene, and economic growth.
Research by William Joe and Abhishek Kumar of the Institute of Economic Growth and S.V. Subramanian of the Harvard T. H. Chan School of Public Health reveals that investment in nutrition is an incredibly cheap way to provide powerful longer-term assistance.
The study compared two sets of disadvantaged children, with one set receiving excellent nutrition and high-quality, stimulating care for eight hours a day from birth to age five, and the other receiving ordinary formula and care.
In Bangladesh, three top priorities were identified by the research and by a panel of experts including a Nobel laureate and Bangladeshi development specialists: e-government solutions, improved TB response, and child nutrition.
De-worming treatments eliminate an impediment to healthy nutrition.
One of the most important opportunities to provide educational messages about nutrition comes during pregnancy.
So, if the world’s poor need educational messages about breastfeeding and nutrition, rich nations require a different kind of education.
This requirement is analogous to that of nutrition labeling, which does not allow listing of nutritional quantities that are not significant in the usual serving size.
But another, less widely discussed social determinant – maternal nutrition – could be.
Indeed, even in ancient civilizations, adequate maternal nutrition was considered essential to ensuring future generations’ survival and prosperity.
It is telling that most of the symposium’s 47 participants – influential public- and private-sector figures from around the world – were unaware of the extent to which a mother’s nutrition affects her offspring’s wellbeing.
The influence of the levels and composition of maternal nutrition on a female fetus will carry through to adulthood, when she, too, becomes a mother.
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