Effect of War-Imposed Dietary Limitations on Growth of Paris School Children

The relevance of food for children's cognitive and behavioural health.

“…In this century many studies of malnutrition effects were reported following the Great Depression and also following World War II, but virtually all this early work reported on physical sequelae such as low birth weight and infant mortality (e.g., in America during the Depression, Palmer, 1935, or in Paris during World War II, Laporte, 1946). In the 1960s interest in long-term psychological sequelae developed when a large number of North American-sponsored, South American-based based studies of malnutrition began to appear.…”

The expression and nurture of physical growth.

“…Appetite and the availability of food have at all times and places been the major factors in determining the diet and nutrition of a people. Famine and the deprivations of war impair growth (47) and reduce the resistance to disease.…”