Table of Contents

1. MALNUTIRION

  • Harmful condition caused by not eating sufficient food or not taking the proper kinds of food
  • Malnourished individuals become prone to diseases like marasmus, rickets and anemia

1.1. UNDERNUTRITION

  • Intake of insufficient food
    • Reasons for malnourishment/undernutrition
      • Ignorance about food
      • poverty
      • Habits
      • Enviromental Factors

1.2. OVERNUTRITION/OBESITY

  • Intake of excessive food.

1.2.1. PRONE TO THE FOLLOWNG:

  • Beriberi: Caused by deficiency in Vitamin B1 \\ SYMPTOMS: Loss of appetite, muscle weakness, mental alertness decrease, lack of concentration
  • Rickets: Deficiency disease caused yb lack of calcium, phosporus and Vitamin D
  • Pellagra: caused by the deficiency by Vitamin B3 or niacin in the diet
  • Maramus: Malnutrition disease characterized y the stunted growth of a child
  • ScurvuyL Deficiency caused by lack of Vitamin C or Ascorbic Acid

1.3. OTHER DISEASES

1.3.1. DIABETES

  • impairs the ability of the body to use sugar
  • The body cannot use or does not produce enough of a needed hormone called insulin

1.3.2. ANEMIA

  • The blood doesn not produce enough red blood cells
  • SYMPTOMS: Pale-looking, The feeling of weakness and faint

1.3.3. OSTEOPOROSIS

  • Causes the bones to be thin and brittle that they can break easily, like glass

1.3.4. UNDERWEIGHT

  • Deficiency wherein a person's weight is lower than the required

1.3.5. OVERWEIGHT

  • Condition where the weight is above the usual

1.3.6. MIRCONUTRIENT DEFICIENCY

  • Lack of essential vitamins and minerals required in small amounts by the body for proper growth and development
  • Common macronutrients are vitamin A, B, C, D, Calcium, Folate, Iodine, and iron

1.3.7. VITAMIN A DEFICIENCY

  • affects 40-60% of children under five in developing countries, comprimising their immune systems, resulting in millions of deaths a year
  • Globally 5 million children under the age of 5 are affected with a series eye disorder, Xerophthalmia as a result of Vitamin A Deficiency

1.3.8. IRON DEFICIENCY ANEMIA

  • Moderate and severe IDA adversely affects immunity, cognitive and moto development, physical performance and reproductive health (premature birth,low birth weight, and perinatal mortality)

1.3.9. IODINE DEFICIENCY DISORDER:

  • Goitre is the clinical manifestation of iodine deficiency disorder
  • The functional consequences are permanent brain damage (Cetinism - mental retardation, and deaf-mutism), Reproductive Failure and decreased child survival

1.3.10. MIRCONUTRIENT DEFICIENCY ^ EFFECTS/NUMBER OF PEOPLE AFFECTED

  • IDD (iodine deficiency disorder): 1.8 billion
  • IDA (iron deficiecny anemia): 1.6 billion
  • Vitamin A: 190 million (preschool-age children // 19 million pregnant women)
  • Zinc: 1.2 Billion

Author: Rori Red

Created: 2022-02-01 Tue 00:18

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