h, particularly of still-growing children who are most affected by environmental and dietary changes.
             However, earlier work suggests that malnutrition among immigrants may occur during infancy and early childhood, due to lack of supplementary food or lack of nutritionally valuable weaning foods and diets too low in protein among children under two years of age (Suarez-Orozco, C., Todorova, I, 2002). We must remember that immigrants coming from 3rd world countries are lacking the financial means to provide healthy nutrition and healthcare for their children. Nutrition plays a huge role in physical development in childhood. If prenatal nutrition is lacking, an infant is likely to demonstrate developmental delays. Similarly, if a child does not receive a sufficient amount of vitamins and other nutrients in his or her early years, the body will not be able to grow properly. This is a tremendous problem and readily apparent in parts of the world plagued by malnutrition. When immigrants move from a country with little to no resources to a country
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