Protein energy malnutrition - an important nutrition problem in india
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Protein Energy Malnutrition (PEM) is an important nutrition problem among preschool age children. This leads to various degrees of growth retardation.When growth reatrdation is severe, functional deficiences, like resistance to infection, poor intellectual development may occur. Earlier, the main cause of malnutrition among children was considered to be due to protein deficiency. However, subsequent systematic study of the habitual diets of these children indicated that the concentration of prot...
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