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Sullivan also pointed to possible "complicating factors, " such as malnutrition, poor housing or crowded conditions.
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Dr Borenstein Graves said while genetics played a part in brain growth, it was also influenced in childhood by factors such as malnutrition, poverty, infection and birth order.
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As a UNICEF ambassador since 1999, he has championed such childhood causes as malnutrition, domestic abuse and trafficking among others.
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But doctors at feeding clinics in affected areas say that children are already dying of illnesses linked to malnutrition, such as diarrhoea, heart failure, pneumonia and other infections.
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Problems eating solids can lead to malnutrition and secondary problems such as reduced resistance to infection and pressure sore risk.
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By contrast, both starvation and obesity are closely linked with poverty, and as such they are both symptoms of malnutrition, Ertharin Cousin, executive director of the United Nations World Food Programme, tells BBC News.
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It is no coincidence that states with the most dalits (former untouchables) or tribes (such as Bihar and Orissa) have higher malnutrition rates than those, like Andhra Pradesh and Kerala, with fewer of these excluded groups.
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It estimates that some 12, 000 children in the continent die daily from illnesses and conditions such as pneumonia, diarrhea, measles, malaria and malnutrition.
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