Household food security is inversely associated with undernutrition among adolescents from Kilosa, Tanzania.

@article{Cordeiro2012HouseholdFS,
  title={Household food security is inversely associated with undernutrition among adolescents from Kilosa, Tanzania.},
  author={Lorraine Cordeiro and Parke E Wilde and Helen Semu and F. James Levinson},
  journal={The Journal of nutrition},
  year={2012},
  volume={142 9},
  pages={
          1741-7
        }
}
Household food insecurity contributes to poor nutritional health, with negative consequences on growth and development during childhood. Although early childhood nutrition needs have received much attention, another important nutritional phase is adolescence. In a sample of 670 adolescents from Kilosa District, Tanzania, this study used 3 approaches to better understand the relationship between food insecurity and undernutrition. First, this study examined the associations between 3 commonly… 
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