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[quote=Anonymous]Will starving, malnourished children in Bangladesh accept nutrition in the form of Plumpy'nut, a peanut based nutritional supplement that has been widely accepted in African countries and hailed as a miracle food? Why, no. http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4463117/ Eventually many kids came around -- but 5% never did accept it. Meaning they would "prefer to starve" than eat what they don't like. I'd say that's about the general percentage for "Severe Picky Eaters" -- 5% or less of the childhood population. My son would have been one of those kids. If his choice was Plumpy'Nut or die (or some other food he didn't like) ... I expect he would die, unless I got him to a hospital for tube feeding. I imagine the fatality rate of those 5% severe picky eaters in Bangladesh, failing medical care, is much higher than that for kids who are able to eat a wider variety of foods.[/quote]
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