ANTHROP 2AN3 Lecture Notes - Phytophthora Infestans, Basal Metabolic Rate, Natural Disaster

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925 million people do not have enough to eat. 98% of the world"s hungry people live in developed countries. Asia and the pacific is home to over half the world"s population, but are nearly 2/3 of the world"s hungry people- disproportion. 10. 9 million children under 5 die in developing countered each year. 1 out of 4 children in developing countries= under nutrition. Malnutrition: any kind of poor nutrition, including too much food, too little food, or an improper balance of the wrong foods (foods that don"t provide enough nutrients) Human nutrition: depends not only on food intake, but also on energy expenditure (activity level), and their state of health. Negative energy balance: when a person"s dietary energy consumption is less than their energy output. Calculating z scores: the difference between the weight or the height or the median value (middle value) at that age and height in the reference population.

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