Not exact matches
A second study led by Indi Trehan, another member of the team at Washington University,
showed that
children with kwashiorkor were less likely to become
malnourished again if they were given antibiotics along with a nutrient - rich diet (NEJM, doi.org/kc4).
In fact, studies have
shown that when fed the exact same diet, mice injected with gut microbes from
malnourished children exhibited reduced growth when compared to mice that were given microbes from healthy
children.
Studies
show that poor,
malnourished children in India, Africa, South America, and Southeast Asia experience shorter courses of infectious diarrhea after taking zinc supplements [61].
In a study conducted among
malnourished preschool
children in the Philippines, coconut oil was
shown to be superior to soybean oil as a supplement.
When a 1990s survey was said to
show that there were 12 million hungry
children, NBC's Tom Brokaw quickly transformed that claim into «12 million American
children are
malnourished.»