Malnutrition

patients. It is imperative factor to provide essential nutrition during these critical phases in order to prevent malnutrition to facilitate healing and health restoration. According to eatrightpro.org, malnutrition affects an estimated 30% to 50% of adult hospitalized patients in the United States. A very small percentage of patients actually leave the hospital with a malnutrition diagnosis. The more we learn about food and its nutritious value in medicine continues to evolve and we must keep

time to make a homemade meal or if we should just get some takeout. However, this is not the case with millions of people around the world, and more specifically children. Over 800 million people suffer from malnutrition. It is believed that 5 million children worldwide die from malnutrition every year. This morning when I arrived to work there 2 kids in my office, both complaining of stomachaches. My first question was, have you had breakfast today? To which these students replied, No. I don’t

world, including the United States, where hunger is an issue, malnourishment becomes a very serious concern. Malnutrition is a very basic term referring to the general lack of some or all nutrients needed to support human health. There are two main types of malnutrition, Protein- energy malnutrition (PEM) and micronutrient deficiency (World Hunger, 2011). While both types of malnutrition are dangerous, PEM is the most important and most notable form of the

child mortality rates in the world. Even though the number of children suffering from global acute malnutrition has decreased from 16% in 2001 to 11% in 2010, the rates remain exceptionally high. In 2012, 63.6% of the population live in extreme poverty, living on less than a dollar each day. Infant mortality in the DRC is 73.15/1,000. Among these deaths, half of them are as a result of malnutrition. As shown above, a large majority of the population do not have enough money and cannot afford to

child from growing up appropriately. Hunger also lead to weight loss which then can affect the body from fighting infectious diseases. Because of that, they are more having a high probability of becoming sick, miss school, and fall behind in class. Malnutrition from hunger can also cause cognitive activities. It then affects the brain growth which is very important for a developing child. Brain impaired leads to a child not being able to learn or experience what healthy children do such as reading, writing

Colombia causing many people to lose their home and food. Colombia has tried to make floating houses Incase of another flood, but they never finished the project. This is one of the many factors of how malnutrition started in Colombia. Colombia was recently, and still is in a horrible state of malnutrition in children. An estimated 14,000 people

between them, it appears as if Honduras has made little, if any, progress in reducing child malnutrition. This is not the case. The data set from 2017 was more centered on rural areas and the other set from 1997 was looking at the entire country. Understanding the differences between the two sets of data indicate that the rural and impoverished population of Honduras are particularly vulnerable to malnutrition, particularly undernutrition and deficiency diseases. This can also be seen in Honduras’s

disasters along with a growing population and decreasing agricultural production further impedes the country’s ability to establish permanent food security, establish development grounds, and provide nutrition for all Haitians especially for children. Malnutrition, coupled with limited access to healthcare and unsanitary

Malnutrition can lead to a variety of deficiencies in essential vitamins and nutrients needed for a child to properly develop. In a study of nutritional status in Ecuadorian school-aged children done by Freire (2014), 25% of children are affected by zinc deficiency, 15% are vitamin A deficient, and 38% are iron deficient (1639). Malnutrition that leads to a child being underweight or overweight, weakens the individual’s

living in poverty and the country as a whole often experiencing draught and less than ideal weather conditions, many adults and children are malnourished and the children are mostly stunted. Guatemala is currently facing a interesting malnutrition problem. Malnutrition in Guatemala is affecting localized farmers outside of the city. The growth of children under the age of five is often stunted and the children are malnourished. According to World Food Programme (www.wfp.org), "The chronic undernutrition