Early-stage primary school children attending a school in the Malawian School Feeding Program (SFP) have better reversal learning and lean muscle mass growth than those attending a non-SFP school

Journal of Nutrition

Volumn 143, Issue 8, 2013, Pages 1324-1330

  Nkhoma, Owen ^a,b   Duffy, Maresa ^b   Cory Slechta, Deborah ^c   Davidson, Philip ^c   McSorley, Emeir ^b   Strain, J J ^b   O'Brien, Gerard ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MALAWI   (Malawi)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ULSTER   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AND DENTISTRY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BODY HEIGHT; BODY WEIGHT; CATCH UP GROWTH; CHILD; DEVELOPING COUNTRY; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; LEARNING; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALAWI; MALE; MUSCLE MASS; PAIRED ASSOCIATE LEARNING; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PRIMARY SCHOOL; SCHOOL CHILD; VISUAL INFORMATION;

ANTHROPOMETRY; CHILD; CHILD DEVELOPMENT; COGNITION; DEVELOPING COUNTRIES; EDUCATIONAL STATUS; FEMALE; FOOD SERVICES; HEALTH SURVEYS; HUMANS; MALAWI; MALE; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; NUTRITIONAL STATUS; QUESTIONNAIRES; REVERSAL LEARNING; SCHOOLS;

EID: 84881351137     PISSN: 00223166     EISSN: 15416100     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3945/jn.112.171280     Document Type: Article

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