Category: Malnutrition

Geneva Proposal to Global Fund (2004). Malaria is an endemic that has severely affected the third world countries such as Guatemala

Healthy nutrition is essential; especially for the elderly because at this stage of their lives, they have a lower tolerance to hunger and a weaker immune system; which makes them more prone to suffer from diseases. Unchecked malnutrition and dehydration can lead to severe health complications and worse still, death. Therefore, the need to carefully…

Introduction Crohns disease is an inflammatory idiopathic chronic disease. The disease mostly affects a part of the gastrointestinal tract beginning from the mouth to the anus. Crohn disease brings about complications in the digestive system of a human being. The disease is thought to be caused by bacteria that live in the intestines. The disease…

Abstract This paper offers knowledge into the key concepts behind not only nutrition, but key points regarding malnutrition as well. It speaks on how important it is to understand that an individual must take care of their body the correct way to avoid any unforeseen illnesses, and stresses the importance of understanding how vital it…

INTRODUCTION Background Malnutrition refers to deficiencies, excesses or imbalances in a persons intake of energy and or nutrients. This means a condition which result from eating a diet in which one or more nutrients are either not enough or are too much to causes health problems. It is frequently part of a vicious cycle that…

Introduction What is poverty you may ask? According to Google poverty is the state of being extremely poor in other words poverty is having an insufficient amount of money to fulfill the basic needs of life. Many Canadians today struggle with the ongoing conflicts of provision of resources due to their social status. Canada is…

Introduction Malnutrition is one of the major issues for child mortality in low and middle income nations (Kouam, 2014). Around 2 billion inhabitants globally suffering from a different point of malnutrition (Kamruzzaman, 2017). Malnutrition is a vital cause of death of almost yearly 45% children has died globally (WHO, 2018). It mostly occurs in the…

According to Esther M. et al. (2004) community dwelling elderly people are defined by their age (e60 years of age) and by living independently. This group can suffer from a large variety of health care problems; from just getting older (not diseases specific) to suffering from multiple pathologies. Thus, we are going to discuss the…

Introduction The term malnutrition describes as a deficiency excess or imbalanced of wide range of nutrients resulting adverse effects on body which leads to poor health which increase the risk of malnutrition. In most cases malnutrition is a treatable condition that can be managed by optimizing proper food diet or by using oral nutritional supplements…

Abstract The issue of undernutrition in todays world is applicable to many settings throughout society. The prevalence of this issue does not seem to be decreasing despite the many medical advances in this area in the 21st century and there does not seem to be as much significance on this issue despite its importance in…