Thursday, June 6, 2013

Nutrition: A Neglected and Direct Path To Global Health

Researchers Want Nutrition To Be A Global Priority by Cheri Cheng.  Counsel & Heal.  June 6, 2013.

Want to retain more of what you read?  Read the article and then take the following quiz and improve your recall.

(1)  According to the report in The Lancet, malnutrition could be blamed for _____ % of children's deaths that were under five years old.

(2)  This rate translates into _______ million deaths annually in the world.

(3)  The first ___________ of a child's life, from conception to two-years-old are the most vital days for health development.

(4)  The research team calculated that in 2011 over _________ million children suffered from stunting.

(5)  The estimate for wasting, weight being too low for height, afflicted _____________ million children.

(6)  Total costs of malnutrition for the global community, based upon a U.N estimate is ______________.

(7)  If effective nutritional interventions were scaled-up to 90 percent of the global, nearly ___________  lives could benefit.


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