FARE 1300 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Thiamine, Vitamin A Deficiency, Biofortification

• School: University of Guelph
• Department: Food, Agricultural and Resource Economics
• Course: FARE 1300
• Professor: Gaynor E Spencer

Document Summary

Types of malnutrition: overnurition, micronutrient malnutrition undernutrition (protien, energy malnutrition) secondary malnutrition. Micronutrition malnutrition: diet deficient in essentials micronutrients, key deficiencies: vitamin a (xerophthalmia), iodine (goitre), iron (anaemia), vitamin d (rickets), vitamin c (scurvy), vitamin b1 (beri beri), niacin (pellagra) Undernutrition: over consumption of energy as a result of body weight, relations with nutrient composition of diet, risk factor in diet related diseases, extent of problem, high in come countries, developing countries. Vitamin a deficiency: major problem for children and women, can cause permeant blindness and death, solutions: dietary diversification, fortification, supplementation, biofortification. Protein-energy malnutrition: under consumption of energy or protein. 1: over time been much debate over which is significant and under what. Monday, january 16, 2017 circumstances: relates to insufficient food intake, implications: kwashiorkor- protein deficiency; marasmus- energy deficiency. Kwashiorkor: protein deficiency, the evil spirit which infects the first child when the second child is born , impacts: stunting, swollen belly, oedema, wasting, dysentery.