It may seem surprising to focus on nutrition to achieve better schooling, but malnourished children learn poorly. Ensuring proper nutrition when brain development is occurring makes a significant difference. The benefits are not just educational but also increase health and a child’s physical abilities (investment in deworming is recommended in the Copenhagen Consensus research on chronic disease, and nutritional interventions are promoted in the paper on hunger.) Provision of nutrient supplements and anti-parasitic medicines is very inexpensive: In Kenya the cost of deworming a child can be
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Benefits of nutrition
