Nutrition: Concepts and Controversies -  Standalone book (MindTap Course List)
Nutrition: Concepts and Controversies - Standalone book (MindTap Course List)
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ISBN: 9781305627994
Author: Frances Sizer, Ellie Whitney
Publisher: Brooks Cole
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Whether the statement is true or false.

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The young impoverished and malnourished children often exhibit specific, more rapidly identifiable conditions. The form malnutrition takes in a hungry child depends partly on the nature of the food shortage that caused it. Severe acute malnutrition (SAM) and chronic malnutrition (CM) are the two faces of childhood malnutrition.

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