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Children of the corn: Health impact of a maize-based diet

Did you know that the Sub-Saharan Africa consumes 21 per cent of the maize produced in the world? In Kenya, which produces 40 million 90-kilogramme bags of the grain annually, maize makes up 63 per cent of total food calories consumed in households.

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