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Protein Deprivation and Offspring Behavior

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In a recent paper in which he summarized and expanded on the report of the World Food Council, Senator McGovern noted that the number of undernourished people in the world increased from about 400 million in 1970 to about 455 million in 1975 (McGovern, 1979). This increase occurred despite larger-than-average food supplies that resulted from unusually favorable weather patterns during that period. Up to one third of the world’s children die from malnutrition and disease before the age of five; 25 to 50 percent of those who survive experience severe or moderate protein-energy malnutrition.

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Riopelle, A.J. (1982). Protein Deprivation and Offspring Behavior. In: Fitzgerald, H.E., Mullins, J.A., Gage, P. (eds) Child Nurturance. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4613-3605-1_1

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