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Poor nutrition can have dire consequences
After her own experience with stunted growth, this graduate student is on a mission to educate others about the importance of healthy food choices
When Clara Rivera was 13 years old, she was diagnosed as severely lactose intolerant. It may seem like a rather common dietary restriction, but for Rivera, it would go on to impact her health in unforeseen ways.
With little guidance from medical experts about how to change her diet, she and her family simply cut out all dairy products – with devasting effects. “I had stunted growth,” Rivera says. “and I fell into a lot of deficiencies, mostly because I didn’t know, we didn’t have that [nutrition] education.”