Recent research shows that many children without enough to eat wind up…

Carl Sagan
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Recent research shows that many children without enough to eat wind up with diminished capacity to understand and learn (“cognitive impairment” ). Children don't have to be starving for this to happen. Even mild undernourishment — the kind most common among poor people in America — can do it. ✨ The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark.
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