NUTR 3110 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Food Security, Food Sovereignty, Marasmus
3 Dec 2018
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Hunger: compelling need or desire for food coupled with physiological, uneasy, or painful sensation or state of weakness cause by the need of food. Malnutrition: range of condition that hinder health, caused by inadequate or unbalanced food intake for from poor absorption of food consumed. Nutrition paradox: double burden of malnutrition: whereby both undernutrition and overweight co-exists. Can emerge from the same root causes: poverty and food insecurity. These policies must be appropriate to their unique ecological, social, economic and cultural circumstances. Food sovereignty includes the true right to food and to produce food. Food availability supply side level of food production stock levels and net trade physical presence of food. Food access - focus on incomes, expenditure, market and prices. Food utilization-nutritional status of individuals: determining factors are, physiological (how much is consumed, hygienic (water quality general sanitary conditions, education (conserving, processing, preparation basic knowledge).
