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for growth and development were higher in children under five years of age than at any other point in the life cycle.21 Young children were thereby particularly susceptible to severe protein deficiency and the condition posed a much greater threat to their survival. This pronounced prevalence, severity, and mortality made young children an obvious and understandable focus of medical research and attention.22 With the publication of the 1952 WHO report, the medicalization of malnutrition, in which children were not brought to the hospital until their condition had become so severe that they required emergency measures to save their lives, came to therefore define the condition and circumscribe the resulting international response. Rather than a broad public health concern requiring comprehensive interventions, this narrow definition of the problem prompted a far more limited and targeted solution.
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