BIOL 1060 Lecture Notes - Lecture 12: Marasmus, Kwashiorkor, Food Security
17 Feb 2016
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Article food security: the challenge of feeding 9 billion people. Population is going up, so the global demand for food is increasing. Eat less meat for more food security b/c this would free up a lot of plants to feed billions of hungry people and gain a lot of good farm land. Protein-energy malnutrition (pem): malnutrition due to inadequate protein or energy or both in the diet, most often striking children. The most widespread malnutrition problem, pem afflicts over 5000,000,000 children in the world. Two forms of pem: acute pem and chronic pem. A child that suddenly no longer has access to calories and protein. Protein-energy malnutrition caused by recent severe food restriction. Characteristic in children: wasting, or thinness for height . A child that has been w/o protein and adequate nutrition for quite some time. Characteristics in children: stunting or short height for age .
