Question

What is malnutrition?

Answer 1

Answer:

Malnutrition- A condition of weakness and poor health that results from not eating enough food or from eating food without the proper nutrients.

Explanation:

This was a kid definition basically to break it down for you :-)

Also another way to know the definition is by looking at the Root Words. If you didn't know, Mal means Bad and nutrition is basically vitamins you need in able to survive. So put one and one together and you get Bad Nutrition.

Malnutrition- Bad Nutrition

Answer 2

Answer:

Malnutrition is a state resulted from deficiency or excess supply of essential nutrients.

Further more information:

Malnutrition is the root cause of any infectious disease that occurs especially in children.It can occur at any age,but most frequently,it occurs in children.

Causes of malnutrition:

• Lack of food: Inability to consume either required quantity of food or due to low production or lack of purchasing power causes malnutrition.
• Lack of knowledge: Most of the people do not know about the importance of homemade food with high quality nutritive value and they are lured to instant and expensive foods from the market.These instant foods have low nutritive value which may occur malnutrition.
• Improper storing: Lack of proper storing or cooking causes malnutrition because nutrients of food are destroyed with the improper storing and over cooking.

Types of malnutrition

Malnutrition can be classified into three groups on the basis of its severity.They are as follows:

• Simple malnutrition
• Median malnutrition
• Severe malnutrition

General symptom of malnutrition

• Regular weeping,crying
• Feeling irritation
• Underweight in chinldren

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