Nutrition: Concepts and Controversies
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Author: Frances Sizer, Ellie Whitney
Publisher: Cengage Learning
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Chapter 15, Problem 8SC
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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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