Nutrition Reviews: Conversations with the Authors

Nutrition in school-age children: a rationale for revisiting priorities


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Middle childhood and early adolescence have received disproportionately low levels of scientific attention relative to other life stages, especially as related to nutrition and health. Nevertheless, this age bracket, which encompasses most of the primary education and basic schooling years for most individuals, is marked by significant changes, inflection points, and sexually driven divergence in somatic and brain growth and development trajectories. Join us for this episode where Douglas Taren speaks with Jose Saavedra, co-author of this featured article, on their review highlighting the specificities of growth and development in middle childhood and early adolescence, the role of nutrition, the short- and long-term consequences of inadequate nutrition, and the current global status of nutrition in this age group.

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Nutrition Reviews: Conversations with the AuthorsBy James Cameron

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