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[โ€“] TriflingToad 18 points 1 month ago (1 children)

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

[โ€“] [email protected] 6 points 1 month 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).