Giving babies only pap could cause malnutrition, physician tells mothers
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“If we are bringing up children that are malnourished, not only will they be sickly, they will not be able to perform physically as they should,” she noted.
In a 2019 study published in BMC journal and titled, ‘Nutritional status of under-five children born to teenage mothers in an urban setting, south-western Nigeria’, the researchers said child care is one of the key underlying causes of childhood malnutrition.
BMC is one of the world’s open-access journal publishers.
According to the researchers, child care is manifested in the way a child is fed, nurtured, socialised, and guided.
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