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Bellinger was in the team’s opening-day lineup the next year, but struggled mightily through the 2021 and 2022 seasons, a period during which his agent, Scott Boras, said the former MVP winner was playing with “a 35% strength deficiency.”

“Micronutrient deficiency is widespread in the country and we are serious in our efforts in alleviating it,” said Ms Tan-Bantoto.

“Ninety-seven percent of babies do not meet their daily nutrient requirement, 40% of babies, zero to five, suffer from iron deficiency anaemia. And we know that to be anaemic has lifelong consequences. For instance, brain development and next poor immunity and 20% of kids zero to five are stunted. That means we fortify our products.”

It also means for a lot of overweight people there is a “hormonal deficiency, or at least it doesn’t go up as high”, argues Prof Yeo, which leaves them biologically more hungry and primed to put on weight than someone who is naturally thin.

According to the report, Emanuel, whose law firm represented one of the companies involved in the original case, should have recused himself, and the failure to do so represented a “a serious and flagrant problem and/or deficiency” in the board's handling of conflict-of-interest issues.