Long-Term Effects of Nutritional Supplementation in Childhood

In their study, Nandi et al report on a follow-up at age 20-25 y of individuals who were born between 1987 and 1990, during the expansion of the Integrated Child Development Services (ICDS), an Anganwadi-based child-feeding program in Hyderabad, India. The investigators found that those born in the intervention villages were both 9% more likely to have completed secondary school and 6% less likely to have married by age 20-25 y. Even with this study, the universe of high-quality evidence of the long-term effects of nutrition intervention in childhood remains very thin.