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Their brains and bodies will be stunted.
And we want to tell our grandchildren that there was a terrible time in history where up to a third of the children had brains and bodies that were stunted, but that exists no more.
So it's pretty rare, and the effects of Progeria include: tight skin, lack of weight gain, stunted growth, and heart disease.
They'll end up stunted in growth, and you think you can have a meaningful conversation about the fertility effects of such treatment with a 10-year-old girl, a 12-year-old boy?
Amongst the extreme poor, one in three children are permanently stunted from a lifetime of not eating enough.
And what these photos show on the one side, on the left side, is a three-month-old who has been stunted: not adequate nutrition, not adequate stimulation.
When we came to this rural area, 45 percent of the children under the age of five had stunted growth due to malnutrition.
The numbers of stunted children under the age of five, in most regions of the world, has been declining.
The film is so emotionally stunted and underpopulated, it begins to seem like a stage-play padded out for the big screen--and yet one without enough characters or motivations in it.
Mr. Allen again plays the only type of character that he's able, the sexually stunted man who can't get the girl.
The characters were stereotypical "white-trash", the movie's "plot" was stunted from the beginning, and the worst feature of this movie was that the nudity was so blatantly from body doubles it was funny.
For those who haven't read the book, the sketchy narrative (leaping forward in time) isn't absorbing, we are never allowed to get our bearings with what's happening, and the production seems stunted by a low budget.
It isn't easily appreciated by the immature or emotionally stunted.
His brilliance is unquestioned but his obsession with chess has stunted his growth in all other aspects of his life.
Not that "Hobbit" is ideal in a lot of ways either -- the story is truncated (although not much changed), the music is quite cute and dated (my girlfriend always says it's like James Taylor's stunted half-brother).
The moment i got to know that "Sajid Khan" was directing the film, i had already lost any hopes of the movie being any good anyways because he already has a very idiotic, blunt and stunted sense of humor and such a guy making a whole comedy movie.....Still i took my chances!
White is purity, he's naive, but has a general sense of good, which is married to his seemingly stunted educational and emotional growth.
An inadequate diet makes your children grow up physically stunted and impairs their cognitive development, costing 4-8 IQ points on average.
Nearly one in four children in Bangladesh under the age of five are malnourished to the point of being stunted, which hinders mental development, lowers school performance, and leads to lower productivity, worse health outcomes, and more disease later in life.
Thailand’s Stunted TransitionBANGKOK – One year after Thailand’s 12th military coup in its 83 years under constitutional rule, and as the controversial trial for criminal negligence of former Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra gets under way, the country’s future is perilously uncertain.
Indeed, to subject people who are born into royal families, or people who marry into them, to lives in a fishbowl, where they are on constant display, like actors and actresses in a continuous soap opera, where human relations are distorted and stunted by absurd rules of protocol, is a terrible form of cruelty.
Stunted children don’t just fail to thrive physically; they also fall behind their better-fed peers in developing cognitive skills.
The higher the degree of a democracy's illiberality, the higher the degree of corruption, moral hazard, opportunism and rent seeking behaviour; the more corrupted the economy, the more stunted democracy is likely to be.
The inroads made by Islamic fundamentalism in the region can be tied to the Caucasus's stunted economies.
In the mid-1980s, Jamaican social workers visited stunted children in their homes for one hour each week for two years, teaching their mothers how to play with their children to promote development.
The stunted children earned just as much as their peers.
Stunted children who had not been part of the program earned 25% less.
In Bangladesh, six million children are stunted – four in ten children below the age of five years old, compared to the global average of around 25%.Setting up early-childhood education centers in Bangladesh could transform lives, at a cost of around $300 per student.
With the reinstatement of the global gag rule, hard-won progress in women’s health could be stunted, or even reversed, all while violating women’s legal and human rights.
The World Bank estimates that over a third of all children in Indonesia, for example, suffer from stunted growth, confronting them with the risk of lifetime effects on fitness and cognitive development.
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