Posted on 3 December, 2010
The goal is ‘getting the right nutrients to the people when they need it.’
Patrick Webb, Dean of Academic Affairs at Tufts University’s Friedman School of Nutrition Science and Policy, was one of the Starved for Attention panelists in Boston.
There’s a key period of time where children’s bodies and minds are developing and if we miss that period it’s very hard to reverse the impact of malnutrition, so we really are looking at emergency situations when we’re dealing with malnutrition. There needs to be a complementary approach to looking at the root causes and addressing them at the same time or else we’ll be needing to do this with each subsequent generation.
Dr. Caroline Kistin, Boston Medical Center pediatrician, was one of the panelists at our Starved for Attention event in Boston.
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