Nutritional Education Program for Nigeria CONTEXT AND STATEMENT OF THE PROBLEM

One study which does establish that birthweight is generally lower in Nigeria was conducted by Wanke (1980), who examined the birthweights of Nigerian infants by gathering anthropometric growth data on exactly-known-age Hausa children from birth to 17 years for boys and to age 13 for girls. Data were collected for weight, height, sitting height, biacromial and biiliac widths, calf and upper arm circumferences, triceps skinfolds and mid-arm muscle circumferences. The findings were then compared to reported values for other Nigerians, West Africans, Afro-Americans and British boys and girls.

The Hausa were found to have a mean birthweight decidedly below the British but similar to other West Africans and Afro

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Grove and Carpenter (1982), and Pastore (1949) have discussed the nature/nurture controversy. Their views on the controversy may be summarized as follows. According to these authors, this controversy asks the question: Which has more effect---nature or nurture, heredity or environment? Findings indicate that the answer depends upon the trait being discussed. For example, some physical traits such as eye color or blood type are clearly the result of "nature,"; that is, they are inherited. On the other hand, as traits grow more complex (e.g. health, intelligence, and personality), the outcome in any given individual is said to be the result of an interplay between both hereditary and environmental forces; and the degree of interplay between these forces can vary for most any condition. For example, mental retardation can result directly from a hereditary defect; in such cases providing the child with a superior environment will have little salutary effect. In other cases, some hereditary defect or disease that is not mental retardation (e.g. deafness, blindness) can interfere with an individual's normal life and contribute to the retarded development. This is slightly less of a hereditary influence and slightly more of
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