Word: cravioto
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Growing Brain. Though there are countless kinds of malnutrition, the researchers reporting in Boston concentrated on protein-calorie deficiency-an overall shortage of food, including a conspicuous deficit of protein. In Mexico City, reported Dr. Joaquín Cravioto, infants under six months old who had to be hospitalized for this type of malnutrition recovered but then developed much more slowly mentally than older children who suffered from the same condition. Studies in Yugoslavia indicate that such children fail to catch up even seven to 14 years later...
This failure, Dr. Cravioto suggested, may be related to the fact that a baby's brain grows fastest at birth and shortly afterward, gaining weight at the rate of about an ounce every two weeks. Reporting similar findings in laboratory animals, the University of London's Dr. John Dobbing said that underfeeding of newborn rats and pigs interferes with the growth of fatty, myelin sheaths around nerve fibers. And this brain damage cannot be fully repaired by normal feeding in later life...
...scotch these attacks, Ambassador Cravioto insinuated, last week, that they were made by Mme. Kollontay out of feminine spite "because General Calles has systematically ordered the expulsion of all foreign propagandists of communistic ideas from Mexico...
| 1 |