“…Although the finding was not the major objective of various studies, infants with poorer nutritional status had more behavioral difficulties. Infants who were the most undernourished were less adaptive to and more easily distracted by environmental demands, exhibited less variability in mood, and exhibited more negative affect and minimal positive affect (Bithoney et al, 1995;Drotar, Nowak, Malone, Eckerle, & Negray, 1985;Polan et al, 1991;Singer et al, 1990). Taken together, these findings suggest that nutritional status may play a role in the behaviors exhibited by infants with FTT.…”