UNIB20014 Lecture 5: Lecture 5 Global Nutrition
9 Aug 2018
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Hungry people don"t have enough food -> not enough nutrients. Window of opportunity - birth to 2 years of age. Children smaller + shorter but appear to be normal. Result of long periods of inadequate nutrition intake. Result of recent rapid weight loss or failure to gain weight. Typically under 5% prevalence in a healthy population. Osmotic imbalance in the gastro-intestinal system fluid retention or oedema. Sufficient energy intake, but with insufficient protein consumption consumption. More evident in older children from 18 months age that are weaned from the breast. Imbalanced diets high in energy but low in micronutrients can lead to double burden of malnutrition (overweight and yet malnourished0 increased risk of chronic disease in adulthood. Immunity: more severe illness, more infant and maternal deaths. 2014, estimated 667 million children under 5 year in the world. Malnutrition is underlying cause of more than 2. 6 millions child deaths each year.
