NUTR 8020 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Vitamin A Deficiency, Iodine Deficiency, Zinc Deficiency
27 May 2019
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Global food and nutrition security: challenges and opportunities. Knowledge, resources, and skills for healthy living. Prevention, treatment, and care for diseases affecting nutrition status. Food is available but not accessible to the poor who don"t have land or money. Living standards declined during the past two decades. Chronic poverty often results in unsafe drinking water, insufficient food, etc. Poverty is much more than an economic condition; it exists for many reasons. Nearly 23% of the world"s population experiences some form of malnutrition. More than 146 million children (one out of four children) in developing countries suffer from malnutrition. Kwashiorkor: severe malnutrition caused by inadequate protein and calories leading to apathy, anemia, loss of body proteins, and poor growth; edema and swollen belly. Marasmus: severely emaciated (thin and skinny) from energy deficiency with chronic wasting of fat and thin, muscle, and other tissues; starvation. Effects of malnutrition on those most vulnerable. Higher infant and under-five mortality rate (u5mr)
