Malnutrition

Malnutrition Introduction Pretty much everyone is the world experiences hunger. For at least two thirds of us it’s just and uneasy, generally uncomfortable feeling in our stomach. But what most don’t realize is that more than 800 million people are not sure if the next meal will come, more than 200 million are children under the age of five. They are lucky if they get three meals in a week. Children who don’t have enough food often suffer from mental disabilities, which can last their whole life and they fall ill more often. When your body doesn’t have all the essential minerals and nutrients it needs your immune system becomes much less effective and can render you very weak if you get a cold or a cough. Malnutrition in children is the consequence of a bunch of things. The majority are often related to unhealthy food without a good amount of essential nutrients or simply not enough food. Many children go blind from malnutrition because of the lack of vitamin A. Who suffers from malnutrition' When asked “who suffers from malnutrition'” most people would first think of Africa. Although not entirely wrong there are many more places malnutrition, food, children, often, very, million, form, don’t, countries, because, africa, think, people, marasmus, first, famine, enough, drought, called, big, worst, world, whole, weak, suffers, severe, protein, problem, poverty, poor, places, nutrients, needs, natural, life