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Warming temperatures and extra variable rainfall are decreasing diet range amongst kids in lots of nations all over the world – and may even undermine efforts to enhance food security.
Meredith Niles on the University of Vermont and her colleagues analysed the outcomes of well being surveys from greater than 107,000 kids in 19 nations – in Asia; North, south-east and West Africa; and Central and South America. The surveys had been carried out between 2005 and 2009.
In the surveys, the range of a kid’s diet was quantified with a rating based mostly on their consumption …