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More than 500,000 Iraqi children were malnourished even before the war, partly due to United Nations sanctions against the regime for its weapons programs.

Richard Lawrence went on to say: «A girl who marries young is far more likely to have children who are malnourished or under - weight.

The malnourished child will get sick more often and will be less able to fight off illnesses such as diarrhoea.

Most suggest helping the malnourished older nursing child, not by weaning, but by supplementing the mother's diet to improve the nutritional quality of her milk and by offering the child more varied and more palatable foods to improve his or her appetite.

Malnourished children are, in turn, more vulnerable to disease and the vicious circle is established.

These days, malnourished children are more likely to be overweight because they aren't getting enough of the right kinds of food to eat.

Now nearly 50,000 children are facing death by starvation if they don't get food and almost 250,000 more are severely malnourished in Borno state, according to UNICEF.

About 5.1 million are malnourished, half a million children so severely that without treatment 75,000 more will die by June, warns the U.N. Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA).

Vitamin A deficiency and measles both degrade epithelial cells, the protective coating on the organs, which is why secondary infections are much more common and much more severe in acutely malnourished children.

Several studies suggest parasite density is higher in acutely malnourished children, an indicator of more severe disease.

By IFPRI's estimate, 25 million more children will be malnourished in 2050 due to the impact of climate change on global agriculture.

Liquid - based nutritional supplements, originally formulated for malnourished or undernourished children, need more regulatory oversight as they are increasingly marketed to promote growth in children generally, warn researchers at Emory University.

More than 8 million people are in need of humanitarian assistance, 5.1 million are severely malnourished, most of them children.

A child who comes to school malnourished, from a poor household, having a mother with less than a high school education, or a parent whose primary language is not English is much more likely than a classmate without those factors to have academic and behavioral problems later on.

Research reaching back to the 1950s agrees that hungry and malnourished children have shorter attention spans, cause more disruptions in the classroom, and score lower on achievement tests.

Food prices will more than double and the number of malnourished children spiral if climate change is not checked and developing countries are not helped to adapt their farming, food and water experts warned [continue reading...]

For example, children in Niger born during a drought are more than twice as likely to be malnourished between the ages of 1 and 2.