Why small-quantity lipid-based nutrient supplements should be integrated into comprehensive strategies to prevent child undernutrition in nutritionally vulnerable populations: response to Gupta et al.’s commentary

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Why small-quantity lipid-based nutrient supplements should be integrated into comprehensive strategies to prevent child undernutrition in nutritionally vulnerable populations: response to Gupta et al.’s commentary Kathryn G. Dewey1, Christine P. Stewart, Christine McDonald, K. Ryan Wessells, Charles D. Arnold, Elizabeth L. Prado, Souheila Abbeddou, Seth Adu-Afarwuah, Benjamin F. Arnold, Per Ashorn, Ulla Ashorn, Sania Ashraf, Elodie Becquey, Robert E. Black, Kenneth H. Brown, Parul Christian, John M. Colford Jr., Lia C.H. Fernald, Emanuela Galasso, Lotta Hallamaa, Sonja Y. Hess, Jean H. Humphrey, Lieven Huybregts, Lora L. Iannotti, Kaniz Jannat, Elizabeth Y. Jimenez, Anna Lartey, Agnes Le Port, Jef L. Leroy, Stephen P. Luby, Kenneth Maleta, Andrew Matchado, Susana L. Matias, Mduduzi NN Mbuya, Malay K. Mridha, Rina R. Paul, Harriet Okronipa, Jean-Bosco Ouédraogo, Amy J. Pickering, Andrew J. Prendergast, Marie Ruel, Saijuddin Shaikh, Ann M. Weber, Patricia Wolff 1 Institute for Global Nutrition, University of California, Davis, 2 Department of Pediatrics, Division of Gastroenterology, Hepatology and Nutrition, University of California, San Francisco, 3 Department of Public Health and Primary Care, Ghent University, 4 Department of Nutrition and Food Science, University of Ghana, 5 Francis I. Proctor Foundation, University of California, San Francisco, 6 Department of Paediatrics, Tampere University Hospital, 7 Center for Child, Adolescent and Maternal Health Research, Faculty of Medicine and Health Technology, Tampere University, 8 Center for Social Norms and Behavioral Dynamics, University of Pennsylvania, 9 Nutrition, Diets, and Health Unit, International Food Policy Research Institute, 10 Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, 11 Center for Human Nutrition, Department of International Health, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, 12 School of Public Health, University of California, Berkeley, 13 Development Research Group, World Bank, 14 Zvitambo Institute for Maternal and Child Health Research, 15 Brown School, Washington University in St. Louis, 16 School of Health Sciences, Western Sydney University, 17 Departments of Pediatrics and Internal Medicine and College of Population Health, The University of New Mexico, 18 Montpellier Interdisciplinary Center on Sustainable Agri-food systems (MoISA), French National Research Institute for Sustainable Development (IRD), 19 Division of Infectious Diseases and Geographic Medicine, Stanford University, 20 Department of Nutrition and Dietetics, School of Global and Public Health, Kamuzu University of Health Sciences, 21 Department of Public Health, Kamuzu University of Health Sciences, 22 Department of Nutritional Sciences and Toxicology, University of California, Berkeley, 23 Global Alliance for Improved Nutrition, 24 Center for Non-communicable Diseases and Nutrition, BRAC James P Grant School of Public Health, 25 State University of Bangladesh, 26 Department of Nutritional Sciences, Oklahoma State University, 27 Institut de Recherche en Sciences de la Santé (IRSS), 28 Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of California, Berkeley, 29 Blizard Institute, Queen Mary University of London, 30 The JiVitA Project of Johns Hopkins University, 31 School of Public Health, Division of Epidemiology, University of Nevada, Reno, 32 Meds & Foods for Kids