Insufficient Nutrition and Stimulation

Insufficient Nutrition and Stimulation
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By C.R. Smith
Pearson Allyn Bacon Prentice Hall

Because insufficient nutrition and stimulation can contribute to learning disabilities, intervention is necessary to avoid any compromise of a child's learning potential. The presence of school breakfast and lunch programs attests to an understanding of the effect of nutrition on learning. We know that a hungry child or one who is in poor physical health isn't likely to have the motivation or energy for schoolwork. This is true when children live in poverty or when middle-income children—girls, mostly—become obsessed with thinness and drastically reduce their caloric intake.

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