All that begins well ends well. It is also applied to our bodily growth. Childhood is the foundation for our mental and physical growth. The way we are brought up decides the wellbeing of our health in the later stages of life. In this world there is no shortage of cases of early disabilities due to malnutrition and hunger deaths. Ill fated childhood is certainly a social disease causing the ill health of the nation. Earlier studies have several times shown alarming reports and constantly warned against the deadly consequences of malnutrition at childhood.

A huge section of the world population lies under the poverty line who live their life fighting against hunger. Malnutrition is commonly seen in the children of poor families. Recent findings in this field revealed that malnutrition at an early stage has adverse effect on the functions of brain. The brain loses its flexibility to think, analyze, innovate and remember at the older stage of life due to malnutrition. Males are more vulnerable to this weakness of brain in old age than females. It not just reduces the normal life span but also makes life very much uneasy and uncomfortable to live. The fresh findings will certainly leave encouraging implications to fight against malnutrition.