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Malnutrition. PREPARED BY: P. SANTHI, SA, BIO., SCI., ZPHS, SRIKALAHASTI CHITTOOR DIST, AP INDIA. 10 TH CLASS BIO. SCIENCE, ENGLISH MEDIUM. Eating food that does not have one or more than one nutrients in required amounts is known as malnutrition. Causes of Malnutrition.
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PREPARED BY:P. SANTHI,SA, BIO., SCI.,ZPHS, SRIKALAHASTICHITTOOR DIST, APINDIA
Eating food that does not have one or more than one nutrients in required amounts is known as malnutrition.
1. Willful starvation or low food intake - when the person decides not to eat or to eat insufficient amounts of food.
2. Poor health of the individual – due to infections, repeated attacks of diarrhoea and round worm infections.
3. Lack of awareness of nutritional qualities of food, nutritional requirements, irrational and wrong beliefs about food and wrong feeding habits.
4. Socio- Economic factors such as poverty, different amounts and types of foods given to different members in the same family.
5. Poor quality of housing, sanitation and water supply also contributes to illhealth.
1. Willful starvation or low food intake - when the person decides not to eat or to eat insufficient amounts of food. • 2. Poor health of the individual – due to infections, repeated attacks of diarrhoea and round worm infections. • 3. Lack of awareness of nutritional qualities of food, nutritional requirements, irrational and wrong beliefs about food and wrong feeding habits. • 4. Socio- Economic factors such as poverty, different amounts and types of foods given to different members in the same family. • 5. Poor quality of housing, sanitation and water supply also contributes to illhealth.
Malnutrition in children is of 3 types. • 1. Calorie Malnutrition. • 2. Protein Malnutrition • 3. Protene – Calorie Malnutrition
CALORIE MALNUTRITION This is seen in children who are given insufficient amounts of energy providing nutrients such as Carbohydrates and fats. This is also called ‘Energy Malnutrition’.