It s all in the food
nutrition plays a vital role in the development of a baby's immune system, even in the womb. A team of researchers led by Andrew Prentice of the Medical Research Council's Dunn Nutrition Unit, Cambridge, uk, has confirmed the relationship after analysing the births and deaths of nearly 1,000 people in Gambia ( New Scientist , Vol 155, No 2093).
The researchers compared people born in the harvest season (January to June), when food is plentiful, to those born in the next six months (July to December) of the wet season, when there is a shortage of food. The results showed that, at age 15, those born in the
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