Exposure to Famine at a Young Age and Unhealthy Lifestyle Behavior Later in Life
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Exposure to Famine at a Young Age and Unhealthy Lifestyle Behavior Later in Life
BACKGROUND A healthy diet is important for normal growth and development. Exposure to undernutrition during important developmental periods such as childhood and adolescence can have effects later in life. Inhabitants of the west of the Netherlands were exposed to severe undernutrition during the famine in the last winter of the second World War (1944-1945). OBJECTIVE We investigated if expos...
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عنوان ژورنال: PLOS ONE
سال: 2016
ISSN: 1932-6203
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0156609