Category: malnutrition

Nutrition is defined as a substance working in the body. A living life form is the result of nourishment. The individual requires in excess of 48 distinct supplements for its prosperity. Supplements are substance parts gotten from nourishment, which help support body capacities, body development, and protection of the organs of the body Malnutrition signifies…

Iron deficiency anemia (IDA) affects 2 billion people worldwide. It has been estimated that iron deficiency (ID), without anemia, is at least twice as frequent. In India alone, 600 million people are afflicted by this nutritional inadequacy. Current iron fortificants either suffer from poor bioavailability of negatively affect the sensory profile of foods. Additionally, the…

Healthy nutrition is essential; especially for the elderly because at this stage of their lives, they have a lower tolerance to hunger and a weaker immune system; which makes them more prone to suffer from diseases. Unchecked malnutrition and dehydration can lead to severe health complications and worse still, death. Therefore, the need to carefully…

Introduction Crohns disease is an inflammatory idiopathic chronic disease. The disease mostly affects a part of the gastrointestinal tract beginning from the mouth to the anus. Crohn disease brings about complications in the digestive system of a human being. The disease is thought to be caused by bacteria that live in the intestines. The disease…

Although at times in certain individuals poor immunity is inherited by birth or some suffer from autoimmune disorders, for the majority of the population immunity can be improved by healthy nutritious food, maintaining standards of personal hygiene, and a sanitary environment. The strong relationship between malnutrition and infection was originally described by Scrimshaw et al.…

Malnutrition essentially comes in various forms, which include undernutrition, inadequate vitamins or minerals, and overweight to mention a few, however, most people only see malnutrition from the aspect of undernutrition. Notwithstanding research has shown that not only does malnutrition involve inadequate food supply, but also can be present in people with enough food supply but…

Abstract This paper offers knowledge into the key concepts behind not only nutrition, but key points regarding malnutrition as well. It speaks on how important it is to understand that an individual must take care of their body the correct way to avoid any unforeseen illnesses, and stresses the importance of understanding how vital it…

INTRODUCTION Background Malnutrition refers to deficiencies, excesses or imbalances in a persons intake of energy and or nutrients. This means a condition which result from eating a diet in which one or more nutrients are either not enough or are too much to causes health problems. It is frequently part of a vicious cycle that…

Introduction What is poverty you may ask? According to Google poverty is the state of being extremely poor in other words poverty is having an insufficient amount of money to fulfill the basic needs of life. Many Canadians today struggle with the ongoing conflicts of provision of resources due to their social status. Canada is…

Introduction Malnutrition is one of the major issues for child mortality in low and middle income nations (Kouam, 2014). Around 2 billion inhabitants globally suffering from a different point of malnutrition (Kamruzzaman, 2017). Malnutrition is a vital cause of death of almost yearly 45% children has died globally (WHO, 2018). It mostly occurs in the…