• TriflingToad@lemmy.world
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      28 days ago

      is it malnutrition or parents not caring and therefore giving them malnutritious foods? Correlation and causation and all

      • brbposting@sh.itjust.works
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        28 days ago

        It’s true someone with means and knowledge could do that. Something that’s stuck with me for many years:

        An impoverished mom could only afford to feed her kid instant ramen most of the time. Iron deficiency -> behavioral problems. Believe this was from the documentary A Place at the Table (2012).