All Children Worldwide Have The Potential To Grow The Same

January 4, 2007 – 11:49 pm | posted in Pediatrics

New international Child Growth Standards for infants and young children were published by WHO. They provide guidance for the first time about how every child in the world should grow.

The new standards prove that differences in children’s growth to age five are more influenced by nutrition, feeding practices, environment and health care than by genetics or ethnicity.

It took WHO almost 10 years to develop the new standards, the previous ones having been in existence since the 1970s. 1970s.

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