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Possible Effects of Internet Use on Cognitive Development in Adolescence Kathryn L. Mills ... to musical training or malnutrition. Particularly rural children are more vulnerable to malnutrition because they receive foods having low nutritional values along with discriminatory distribution of food within the household. Our study clearly illustrates the persistent adverse effects of malnutrition on both the cognitive and psychomotor development of young children despite improvements in nutrition and physical growth during the first year of nutritional rehabilitation. Generally, a Z score of −2 has been utilized as a cut-off point for estimation of status of malnutrition of children.