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Nutritional Status of Primary School Children: A Review

Jalees Farooque, Ansari Aafaque, Farha Rizwan Sikalgar, Rehan Safee

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Nutrition: Nutrition has been defined as food at work in the body. Nutrition includes everything that happens to food from the time it is eaten until is used for various functions in the body. Diet: Diet refers to whatever you eat and drink each day. Thus it includes the normal diet you consume and the diet people consume in groups. Food: Food is that which nourishes the body. Malnutrition can result in lack of stability of physical and psychological development of a child. This paper provides a summary of the recent literature on the nutritional status of the primary school children by the WHO guideline

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Nutrition, Malnutrition, Food, Nutritional status, primary school

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