What You Need To Know About Malnutrition
What You Need To Know About Malnutrition
Looking at the diet system of 80% of the world population, we would see that the types of food we eat are not up the nutritional value needed for the body consumption and growth. Imagine taking food like Rice and spaghetti to school without dietary protein like fish. This alone is enough the cause a lot of harm to the body system.
A lot of people still also find it hard to know when they are malnourished or undernourished so as to be able to tackle it and take the proper diet needed for the body usage.
WHAT IS MALNUTRITION?
Malnutrition is
defined as a diseases condition causes by eating too much, too little or an
unbalances diet that does not contain the entire necessary requirement needed
for nutritional status of the body.
Malnutrition occurs
when the body doesn't get enough nutrients. Causes include a poor diet,
digestive conditions or another disease. Therefore it is possible to eat
everyday and still be malnourished.
Malnutrition is often
split into two broad groups of conditions:
Under nutrition: This occurs when one does not
get enough food needed for the e body processing. Some of its effect includes
stunting, wasting, low body weight.
Over nutrition: This
occurs when a person takes in more nutrients than the body requires. This may
lead to overweight which includes obesity and diet-related non-communicable
diseases (NCDs).
People who mostly
suffer from this are women and children. In fact more than 2 billion individuals
are deficient of in one or more micronutrient example includes vitamin A deficiency,
Iodine deficiency, and Iron deficiency.
Causes of malnutrition
2. Low quality food product
3. Wrong food combinations
Symptoms of malnutrition
1.
Depression
Ways to stop
malnutrition
1. Enlightenment on
the need for a balanced diet
2. Provision for
quality food product.
3 Reduction on the
intake of processed food
4 Intake of high
nutritive value food such as vegetable protein, fish protein concentrate.
5. Make a dietary plan.
Malnutrition is very dangerous
to the health of individuals as it can lead to higher rate of diseases such as
cancer even in little children. Therefore it is necessary to take a proper
healthy diet.
If you like the content of this
blog, you can share to your friends and family. Don’t forget to write your
question and request in the comment section below.
Comments
Post a Comment