To start out I would like to briefly explain Seckler's hypothesis. He gives the Idea, which goes against nutritionist's assumption about malnutrition, that people who are short in stature do to mild to moderate malnutrition are in fact healthy and well adapted to the amount of nutrition he or she receives. Seckler believes that In childhood children adapts to the low intake of nutrients by slowing down the rate of growth and by reducing growth he states that the body doesn't need the amount of nutrients considered to be properly nourished stated by nutritionists. According to Seckler "small but healthy individuals make up 80 to 90% of the population of developing countries who live in areas of food scarcity.

If Seckler is correct then international food and nutrition programs can b

Pelto and Pelto also raised the proposition the Secklers research never explored the long-term effects. This "quitting early" of Seckler caused him to fail to consider the long-term effects. In the "Malnutrition" article Pelto and Pelto noticed that Seckler considered only a very limited domain of possible impairments. He also failed to research the current material about the causes of MMM (research of Chavez and Martinez). Also, Secklers research of "adaptation" of MMM people was rejected by Scrimshaw and Young who define adaptation as "the maintenance of homeostasis, or the processes of return to some equilibrium status in response to an environmental challenge. Scrimshaw and Young consider Secklers "adaptation" to really by "accommodation". Pelto and Pelto further suggest in data that they agree with Scrimshaw and Young and do consider it to be "accommodation" instead of "adaptation".

e redirected to a much smaller amount of people who suffer from "serious" malnutrition. The food aid budgets could by reduced by an exceptional amount because these small but healthy people are actually healthy and are not in need. Thus, giving relief to humanitarians who thought that hundreds of millions of people were suffering from malnutrition are actually healthy.

I agree with Pelto and Pelto that Seckler "quit early" and failed to study the long-term effects of MMM. I

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