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new, its significance to brain development was a
recent biological discovery.
“It is now clear that the human brain reaches 80% to
90% of its full weight by the age of four, and if
children do not get adequate protein during this
‘critical period,’ the brain does not develop
properly,” Dr. Swaminathan stated and went on to
say that comparative studies on the intelligence of
different ethnic groups would in the future have to
be viewed from this standpoint too. If the problems
of malnutrition and protein hunger were not taken
in hand immediately, “We may have to witness
during the next two decades a growing acuteness of
intellectual power in the developed nations, but a
process of intellectual dwarfing in our own country.
Every day’s delay in fighting protein hunger in the
youth could lead to the creation of more than 10
million ‘intellectual dwarfs.’’’ He added: “Much
damage must have already occurred in recent
years.” Asked for a solution to the problem, Dr
Swaminathan said, “The message of protein-
consciousness should be carried to the masses by
government action and the mobilisation of public
opinion.
