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Hunger QOTD: Carl Sagan

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Children at Lott Carey Mission School play outside during P.E. class. Photo by Laura Elizabeth Pohl/Bread for the World.

"Recent research shows that many children who do not have enough to eat wind up with diminished capacity to understand and learn. Children don't have to be starving for this to happen. Even mild undernutrition - the kind most common among poor people in America - can do it."

Carl Sagan, astronomer and Cornell University professor.

 

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Posted by Bread on August 08, 2012 in Hunger QOTD, Maternal and Child Nutrition, Poverty, Social Justice / Comments (0) / TrackBack (0)

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