Famine and Food Insecurity - Impacts to Offspring
Here are three academic-based articles discussing intergenerational impacts of famine, and a series of news articles discussing some current concerns.
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Impacts of food insecurity on child development
Casey, E. G. (2025). Impacts of food insecurity on child development. Current Pediatrics Reports. Advance online publication. https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC12348265/
The intergenerational legacy of early-life malnutrition during the Great Leap Forward famine in China
Zhang, H., & Ho, W. C. (2025). The intergenerational legacy of early-life malnutrition during the Great Leap Forward famine in China. BMC Public Health, 25(1), 1472. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12889-025-22571-0Links to an external site.
You are what you eat...and so are your grandkids? Study links poor diet to multi-generational health issues
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https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2024/12/241211125103.htm
ScienceDaily. (2024, December 11). You are what you eat... and so are your grandkids? Study links poor diet to multi-generational health issues. https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2024/12/241211125103.htm
The whole article that ScienceDaily wrote about (Link to article)
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/39498088/
Diniz, F., Edgington-Giordano, F., Ngo, N. Y. N., Caspi, G., El-Dahr, S. S., & Tortelote, G. G. (2024). Morphometric analysis of the intergenerational effects of protein restriction on nephron endowment in mice. Heliyon, 10(20), e39552. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.heliyon.2024.e39552
Is this still happening? Yes. Here are some articles discussing current situations.
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A series of Reuters articles on the impacts of famine and food Insecurity
Links to articles discussing how Famine is defined, and if this needs to be updated, and on the nutrition crises in Myanmar, Sudan, Afghanistan, Ethiopia, and other areas.