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MALNUTRITION’S AFFECT ON HEALTH IN DEVELOPING COUNTRIES
Compared with the relatively recent past, we live today in a world of abundance. ... All too frequently, the poor in developing countries stand by, watching with empty hands and stomachs, while rich harvests and abundant crops are continuously exported for hard cash. ... That is why, despite abundance, hunger hovers; despite supply, malnutrition persists.
Malnutrition –referred to as a number of diseases, each related to one or more nutrients and characterized by an imbalance between the supply of nutrients and energy, and the body’s demand for them to ensure growth, maintenance, and specific function. ... Malnutrition kills, mutilates and disables. An estimated 174 million children under the age of five years old in developing countries are malnourished, as indicated by low weight for their age. ... Malnutrition results in poor physical and cognitive development, as well as lower resistance to illness. Malnutrition, in its many forms, persists in virtually all countries of the world in spite of our general improvement in food supplies and health conditions, and the increased availability of educational and social services. ... From this, disease decreases people’s ability to farm or purchase nutritious foods, which then leads to increased malnutrition. This downward spiral of malnutrition and illness can be fatal. ... 2 million deaths among children - in developing countries are associated with malnutrition. These developing countries include several third world countries, most specifically South Asia, Sub-Saharan Africa, and Latin America. ... It is estimated that more than half of the children in South Asia suffer from protein energy malnutrition, which is about five times the prevalence in the Western hemisphere, at least three times the prevalence in the middle East, and more than twice that of East Asia.
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