HLTH 250 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Nutrition Education, Malnutrition, Global Health
13 Apr 2018
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Right nutrition in the 1,000 days between a woman"s pregnancy and her child"s second birthday builds the foundation for a child"s ability to grow, learn, and thrive. Pre pregnancy to birth, infancy (birth-6months), toddlerhood (6months-2years) Impact of good nutrition early in life can reach far into the future. Children who get the right nutrition in the first 1,000 days impact children far into adulthood. Being tall in your linear growth is a marker of what is internally going on in a child. Pregnancy, exclusive breastfeeding, complementary foods + breast milk. Mom"s nutritional status even before pregnancy plays an important role in eventual pregnancy. Too few interventions actually focus on this aspect. Low birth weight infant, preterm delivery and mortality. Issue with looking at global averages: hides a lot of disparities between higher and lower risk countries. Overweight/obesity is a huge problem within the us. Low birthweight, preterm birth, risk of iron deficiency in child.
