Malnutrition
can be defined as the excess and deficit of the nutritive value required for
the development and growth of the body resulting in major health problems. It
results in two categories; under nutrition and over nutrition. However,
malnutrition refers to the under nutrition. The food to be consumed should be
nutritious containing various vitamins, carbohydrate, fats, mineral and
proteins which boost the body preventing to be malnourished.
Malnutrition is a major health
problem resulting all over the world. It doesn't results by not eating
nutritious foods daily in diet but also results by over eating. Overeating is
not healthy practice from the health point of view; it results in over weight
and obesity. Overeating is common in western countries and is attracted towards
fast foods due to availability and accessibility, rather than nutritious foods
like milk, fishes, green vegetables and proteins. Life styles and more eating
habits also help for overweight which is the sign of bad health. The common
reason for malnutrition is poverty and expensiveness. Poor people cannot afford
nutritious foods which are high of costs for their family and suffer from
chronic malnutrition. People suffering from parasitic infections like hookworms
are susceptible to malnutrition as the hookworms take nutrients from the their
intestines. Diarrhea also results in malnutrition as all the nutritive values
are gone through excreta. It brings poor appetite and weakness. Agricultural
productions also results in malnutrition if farmers cannot harvest nutritive crops.
All the foods we consume are from agriculture. Various chemical fertilizers
like pesticides, insecticide are excessively used in vegetables and crops to increase
the agricultural productions but the chemicals used in it remains as residue in
the human intestine causing vomiting which automatically results in
malnutrition. Some small threat like drought, rise in temperature, heavy rain also
decreases the productivity of crops and later there will food scarcity. Under 2 years children are deprived from
breastfeeding which contain a very high nutritive value. In some part of the
world, there are no health related institutions to aware and give counseling about
malnutrition to uneducated, poor and needy people.
Malnutrition is a global health
problem in most of the developing and underdeveloped country in the world
though it is rarely found in developed countries too. Balanced diet must be
taken daily which includes cereals, rice, green vegetables, fish, milk and
eggs. There should be the provision of having food 4-5 times in a day.
Breastfeeding should be done more than 8 times a day as it increases the
immunity power of the body. Governments of the country should distribute
fortified foods to poor people. Lack of
education is the root cause for malnutrition.
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