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Which of the Following Statements About Emergency or Survival Nutrition

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Which of the following statements about emergency or survival nutrition is FALSE?


A) The main purpose of short-term management of severe acute malnutrition is to provide food energy and correct dehydration.
B) Extra care should be taken to prevent the refeeding syndrome, which can result from the sudden return to normal food intake after prolonged starvation.
C) 'Ready-to-use therapeutic foods' (RTUF) have proved to be a safe emergency treatment for refeeding syndrome.
D) Poor governance, more than poverty, appears to be the major contributor to undernutrition.
E) Climate change, with changing rainfall patterns and increases in extreme weather events, has become the greatest of threat to food safety and food security.

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