Anthropogenic climate change is projected to reduce cereal yields and food security and therefore to undermine future efforts to reduce child undernutrition. But models are needed to better measure the potential impacts of climate change on population health. Now researchers have developed a model to estimate future undernutrition attributable to climate change as a function of its impact on cr...

Experiments at Cambridge have shown that undernutrition during the early period of growth of calves will result in a reduction in size of the mature animal even if a high level of feeding is subsequently given, whereas a similar period of undernutrition in the 2-year-old animal, which was well fed as a calf, has much less effect on the mature size (Brookes and Vincett, 1950). The slower maturin...

In health care today, undernutrition or malnutrition among elderly hospitalised patients is a widespread problem resulting in serious or adverse health outcomes. Psychosocial factors contribute to the risk of inadequate nutrition or undernourishment in older adults. Many older patients live on fixed incomes, have reduced access to food (social isolation), have poor knowledge of nutrition, or ar...