What impact does malnutrition have on children living in poverty?

Malnutrition has devastating effects on children living in poverty.

• Malnutrition most-commonly affects children in two ways: wasting and stunting. Wasting is when a child is already underweight and has trouble gaining weight. Stunting often looks like a child being “too short for their age” resulting from prolonged malnutrition. Both are effects of not getting enough macro and micronutrients.
• Malnutrition affects both a child’s neurological and musculoskeletal development. Many malnourished children never develop to their full intellectual or social potential.