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What is meant by malnutrition and famine?
Malnutrition is when your body does not get all the vitamins, minerals, and protein's to survive functionally. Famine is basically starvation.
Use malnutrition in a sentence?
Malnutrition is the condition that occurs when a person's body is not getting enough nutrients or food.Severe malnutrition killed many thousands of people in World War II,including prisoners of war.If you don't eat the right foods, you could suffer from malnutrition.
How do vitamins help cows?
Vitamins help cows the same way vitamins help us: they help with maintenance of bodily functions and good health in the cattle. Without essential vitamins, cattle would get sick and/or starve from malnutrition and eventually die.
What factors occur with malnutrition?
Malnutrition is the condition that occurs when your body does not get enough nutrients. Causes There are a number of causes of malnutrition. It may result from: • Inadequate or unbalanced diet • Problems with digestion or absorption • Certain medical conditions It could occur if you don't eat enough food. Starvation is a form of malnutrition. You might develop malnutrition if you lack of single vitamins in the diet.
What are vitamins responsible for?
Acting as coenzymes
What are different types of malnutrition?
There are many different types of malnutrition, but they can be categorized into several main classes. First is caloric malnutrition, in which there is insufficient overall energy in the diet. Second would be protein/carbohydrate/lipid malnutrition, in which one major class of nutrients is deficient. Third would be vitamin/mineral malnutrition, in which one or more vitamins or minerals are deficient. Fourth would be micronutrient malnutrition, in which certain micronutrients are deficient.
What happens when you stay inside to long?
Your eyes get adjusted to the dark so you can see, and you can get malnutrition because your not taking in the suns vitamins.
Can malnutrition exist where food is abundant?
Yes, malnutrition is not the same as hunger, although they often go together. Even people who have plenty to eat can be malnourished if they don't eat food that provides the right nutrients, vitamins and minerals.
How mothers can prevent malnutrition?
By eating well and taking prenatal vitamins if they are pregnant, and making sure their children eat nutritious meals.
How is obesity a part of malnutrition?
All food is not nutritional and healthy so if that is all you eat, like junk food, and the food is mostly sugar and fat and no vitamins or iron etc you will gain weight but not get nutrition. In the end you will be suffering from malnutrition.
Why is it difficult to collect accurate data on malnutrition?
First of all we have to define what is malnutrition. It is a subjective term because your malnutrition may be different from mine. In Africa malnutrition may mean getting no food. In Asia it may mean not getting enough food. In Europe and US countries, it may mean lack of nutritious food or vitamins and minerals. This can be a reason why we are not able to collect the accurate data.
What kinds of vitamins are essential for daily intake for a male adult?
Vitamins A, C, D2, B complex vitamins.. The needing of a particular vitamin vary from individual to individual. Every person has his own clinical history.
