India Being Stunted Summary

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In this article Nicholas Kristof, explained half of the kids of India are stunted. After he took a trip to India with Austin Meyer who is currently student at Stanford University. They went to India to tackle this issue and figure out why are hundreds of millions of children here stunted physically and mentally. He wandered the cause of this problem, and he mentioned India is developing country and its seems its worsen the most African poorest countries including Burundi. He concluded childhood malnutrition, food security for the poor people was the problem. He also talk about how children who lack nutrition during their childhood, will suffer and have intelligence problem when they grow up. He goes and described how Indian Muslims are the

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