« India's changing outsourcing industry: call center jobs returning; womb for rent growing | Main | If Senator Specter Has His Way, Churches Can Have Super Bowl Parties Next Year »

Friday, February 01, 2008

Study Says A Baby's Diet Determine Earning Power ( If you are a boy)

If a new study published in the British medical journal, The Lancet,  says  providing babies with good nutrition can dramatically  increase their earning power. The study was conducted in Guatemala over  a 30 year period.

It's long been known that children of well off parents grow stronger and wealthier the children in disadvantaged families. While nutrition has  always considered a factor --it was just that one factor of many: joining education, the economy and the culture,

However, in this study the only variable was what the babies ate.
According to the report by the BBC


During the 1970s, some of the babies in the study were given a very nutritious food supplement, some a less nutritious one.

When the researchers returned three decades later to see how the babies - now men - were faring, they found that men who had had the very nutritious supplement up to the age of three were earning nearly half as much more per hour than the other villagers.

The girl babies who had become women did not have similar wage differentials, possibly because they had less choice about where they worked.

About that last line. Do You Think?

If the study stands up to academic scrutiny it could have  significant implications on how nutrition is managed in developing countries.

TrackBack

TrackBack URL for this entry:
http://www.typepad.com/t/trackback/57419/25696556

Listed below are links to weblogs that reference Study Says A Baby's Diet Determine Earning Power ( If you are a boy):

Comments

Feed You can follow this conversation by subscribing to the comment feed for this post.

Post a comment

If you have a TypeKey or TypePad account, please Sign In

Blogher Ad Network


Blogher

MinnPost

Twitter Updates

    follow me on Twitter
    My Photo

    utterz

    • utterz

    Sponsored Ads

    October 2008

    Sun Mon Tue Wed Thu Fri Sat
          1 2 3 4
    5 6 7 8 9 10 11
    12 13 14 15 16 17 18
    19 20 21 22 23 24 25
    26 27 28 29 30 31  
    Blog powered by TypePad
    Member since 06/2004

    Google Analytics