Question

What is malnutrition? What are the types of malnutrition? What are the ways to prevent it?

Answer 1

When there is lack of sufficient nutrition in the body or when the body not get proper amount of nutrition then it's leads to malnutrition.

There are four types of malnutrition

1- growth failure malnutrition: failure of growth due to the insufficient nutrition the sudden failure in growth seems in the adult age children.

2- Acute malnutrition or wasting: as it is clear from the term wasting which means sudden weight loss by not getting sufficient nutrition.

3- chronic malnutrition or stunting: the name stunting suggest is the low height it's begain before birth due to the poor maternal health and it's leads to the chronic malnutrition.

4- micronutrient: lack of vitamins A,B,C,D , calcium,iron , iodine which cause goitor lack of blood in the body

Ways of preventing the malnutrition :

1- eat plenty of fruits and vegetables so that it fulfilment of lack of vitamins in the body

2- take proper amount of protein in the daily diet

3- take sufficient amount of starch food like rice and bread.