TY  - JOUR
AB  - The nutritional deficiencies of the greatest importance today are five in number: energy, protein, iron, vitamin A and iodine. Deficiency of energy and protein leads in children to stunted growth and in cases of severe deficiency to clinical marasmus, kwashiorkor and millions of deaths a year. Anaemia, common in women and children, is caused above all by iron deficiency. Vitamin A deficiency causes blindness at the rate of about a million cases a year, and most of these end in death. Iodine deficiency results in goitre and six million cretins in the world today.
VL  - 83
IS  - 6
SN  - 0034-6659
DO  - 10.1108/eb058986
UR  - https://doi.org/10.1108/eb058986
AU  - Habicht Jean‐Pierre
PY  - 1983
Y1  - 1983/01/01
TI  - World wide malnutrition
T2  - Nutrition & Food Science
PB  - MCB UP Ltd
SP  - 18
EP  - 19
Y2  - 2024/04/24
ER  -