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Abstract
Malnutrition is a “man made disease ‘which often ‘starts in the womb and ends in the tomb”. Malnutrition and the associated retarding influences cause a lot of morbidity, growth faltering, developmental retardation and significant mortality. These is a wide range of medical and paramedical professional interested in the subject of nutrition and child development the examples of the former are general pediatricians, developmental pediatricians, neurologists, endocrinologists, psychiatrists and physicians; and of the latter are nutritionists, dietitians, home science experts, clinical psychologists and special psychologists and special educators .It is important to link them for prevention and management of nutritional disorders. There is a need for a comprehensive paper that addresses the issue of nutrition and child development for use those who are interested in nutrition and child development including medical and paramedical students and practitioners. As growth and development go hand in hand, these two aspects are combined in this paper in relation nutrition.