Malnutrition Is Cheating Its Survivors, and Africa’s Future

Malnutrition Is Cheating Its Survivors, and Africa’s Future - New York Times: "Yet almost half of Ethiopia’s children are malnourished, and most do not die. Some suffer a different fate. Robbed of vital nutrients as children, they grow up stunted and sickly, weaklings in a land that still runs on manual labor. Some become intellectually stunted adults, shorn of as many as 15 I.Q. points, unable to learn or even to concentrate, inclined to drop out of school early."