1.1 The Background
Good nutrition is critical to human health. Diverse, high quality food is critical to nutrition. Agriculture plays a key role in producing and improving access to the nutritious food needed for healthy, productive lives (Maher et al., 2015). Good nutrition is the foundation for healthy, effective and productive lives. Adequate maternal nutrition in mothers improves the likelihood of giving birth to healthy children, with strong immune systems and well-developed brains (Maher et al., 2015). Persistently good nutrition helps those children carry on growing in strength and resilience .They are more apt to fight off disease, do better in school and have more opportunity to reach their full potential in life (IFPRI, 2014).
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Poor nutrition is a major health problem, especially in African countries (Kadiyala et al., 2014). Malnutrition implies access to poor food. It also implies not enough as well as too much food. Wrong type of food makes the body’s respond to a wide range of infections that result in mal-absorption of nutrients or the inability to utilize nutrients properly to maintain health (Agulanna et al., 2013).More than half of the world’s poorest people live in farming communities, including many suffering from under nutrition. Recent estimates suggest that globally, the combined effect of inadequate macro (protein–energy) and micro-nutrient (including iron and iodine) intakes holds 35% of all child deaths and are responsible for 11% of global disease burden (Black et al., …show more content…
Poor diets, disease and other factors mean that many people do not get the nutrients they need for a healthy life. More than 30% of the world’s population 2 billion people are anemic, many due to iron deficiency (WHO, 2010a), hunger and malnutrition have effects that last throughout the life cycle, with poorly nourished children growing up to less healthy and productive than they could be. ,Clifford et al. (2006) Donald (2006) and Bradley (2002) opined that health capital is affected by a number of preventable diseases such as malaria fever, HIV/AIDS, farm injuries, cholera fever, respiratory diseases and skin
Nutrition is a process that involves the breakdown of food and other substances in the mouth useful in the delivery of body energy. Practicing healthy diet can lead to avoidance of both the known and the unknown health issues. Poor diet is harmful to an individual’s health and cause diseases like kwashiorkor, scurvy, obesity and metabolic syndromes. Popkin (2011) said that “In the last 20–30 years, the world has reduced its water intake, shifted towards sugar-sweetened beverages, increased its proportion of food that is sweetened and ultra processed and reduced its intake of many health components of our diet, including legumes, fruits and vegetables" (p. 83). Different types of foods contain various nutrients that range from fats, carbohydrates, proteins, vitamins and water. Insufficient, imbalanced, or excessive consumption of nutrients by an organism leads to malnutrition. Today, the trend of diet and nutrition is changing at an shocking rate. Good choices of foods positively affect an individual’s health while poor diets have long-term negative effects. Healthy diet gives the body sufficient nutrients to perform physically, fight diseases and maintain wellness. Most of the foods, especially in the market today have heavy saturated fats, lot of carbohydrates, partially hydrogenated oils and highly processed foods.
The late Nineteenth Century saw increased industrial growth in the United States. One of the major developments that led to the increased industrial growth was the expansion of the railroad. The railroad provided infrastructure that made it cheap to transport goods from one place to another. Investors could now build industries in different parts of the country and transport products fast and to a wide network of consumers. Another resource that fostered industrial growth was the influx of immigrants into the United States. During this time, many foreigners were able to come into the country and provide cheap labor for building industries thus reducing the cost of industrialization. In addition, the country was in need of vigorous development to cater for the needs of the growing population at that time.
Education plays a dominant role in the lives of students all over the United States. Since most students spend roughly eight to twelve hours in school, it is important to make sure that they are provided with a healthy and nutritious breakfast, lunch and snack.
Nutrition is important in your daily life. Having good nutrition is key to being healthy. Always eating and drinking with regular exercise is part of being healthy. With a well-balanced diet and regular exercise your health will be excellent.
We now live in a world where 20% of the population uses 80% of the world’s resources. Roughly a billion people live on a dollar a day or less, and approximately 16,000 children die daily from malnutrition. The people of the world’s poorest region, a sub-region of Sahara Africa, spend twenty five thousand dollars every minute paying their massive debt to the rich countries of the north. These markers of extreme poverty have gotten worse since the 1980’s; despite the rapid technological and agricultural strides of progress of the developed world, the margin of the population suffering from chronic malnutrition has doubled in the last forty years.
Nutrition is needed by everybody. It is the process of providing or obtaining the food necessary for health and growth. The United States Department of Agriculture created a ChooseMyPlate.gov to help individuals choose wisely regarding their diets. Unfortunately, many individuals still do not know how to choose a well-balanced diet and I am guilty of that. Healthy eating is not about strict dietary limitations, staying unrealistically thin or depriving ourselves of the foods that we love. Rather, it is about feeling great, having more energy, improving our outlook, and stabilizing our mood (Healthy Eating). Maintaining a healthy diet and weight can help prevent and avoid certain major or minor health problems. Some
Since childhood I have seen commercials about kids in Africa who were dying of starvation. The commercials ended by asking the viewers to contribute spare money to help these children. These commercial prompted me think about how we could help these children and their mothers. I decided to research malnutrition in Sudan. Malnutrition is when people lack nutrients due to disorders of the digestive system or do not eat regular, well balanced meals. The next stage after malnutrition has worsen is starvation. I choose Sudan because of the genocide, Darfur, which has left the country in poverty. This paper looks at malnutrition among child-bearing woman and young girls, the evaluation process used to determine malnutrition and the criteria to separate
According to the UN’s Standing Committee on Nutrition, malnutrition “is the single largest contributor to disease in the world.” Malnutrition is the lack of nutritious food or not having enough to eat. Malnutrition can lead to stunted growth, impaired learning abilities, weak immune system, osteoporosis, muscle weakness, and many other problems based off of the nutrients the body is lacking. In pregnant mothers, it can also lead to stillbirth, miscarriage, and other complications. In the Dominican Republic, this is a large issue that affects numerous urban families. With 20% of the entire population living in extreme poverty and an increasing population, this issue is becoming more prominent with every passing day.
In our world today I believe it is terrible that developing countries across the world are in poverty, which is a leading cause of kids growing up malnourished. When children grow up deprived of the nutrients to support the bones in their body, the development will be damaged far before aging. Food insecurity remains a global problem all throughout the world; insecurity refers to when there is limited or uncertain access to foods. The average intake of the daily supply of calories per person is around two thousand a day. Throughout the world, many children cannot receive the dietary intake of calories, which then decreases their immune system causing diseases and poor health. In most developing countries, over half of the population is dying,
Nutrition is the foundation of health and immunity. A person’s nutritional well-being is an effect of (Herforth & Harris, 2014):
Nutrition is the process of nurturing or being nourished; the total of all the processes that a plant or animal uses to take in and process food substances to maintain a healthy life. A healthy nutrition life style requires a balanced diet of food selected from the five basic food groups, fruits, vegetables, naturally calcium rich dairy products or calcium enriched products, whole grains, and protein (lean meat fish, peas and beans). Other nutritional factors should also be considered. Most fruits and vegetables are better if they are consumed raw because heating destroys some of the healthy nutrients. Steaming and broiling food is better than boiling or frying foods. Preparing fresh fruits and vegetables is better than processed or prepared
“Malnourished children are 20% less literate than those with a healthier diet, says UK charity Save the Children” (The Information Daily). When parents become victims of poverty it can have some very unpleasing long and short term effects to their children. Parents in poverty have a lot on their plate and buying the best quality food or affording enough food can be a tumultuous task. Quality nutrition is essential for the development of the brain. At a young age, poor nutrition or not enough nutrition can seriously hinder “the brain 's development, a child’s ability to learn and has a devastating impact on a child’s future”(The Information Daily). “Malnutrition in the early developmental stages of the brain, by restricting the children’s cognitive growth, can lower a child 's IQ has much has 20 points”(The Information Daily). Long term effects of malnutrition leave permanent damage to the brain, however, malnutrition has short term effects as well. Malnourishment can greatly compromise a child’s immune system, making them more susceptible to infectious diseases. “Low counts of zinc, iron and vitamin A are commonly associated with weakened immune function” (Orphan Nutrition). A deadly infection can have a huge impact on a poverty stricken family leading to less affordability. Malnutrition negatively affects a student throughout their educational
Malnutrition has lifelong implications because it severely reduces a child’s ability to learn and grow to their full potential and leads to less productive adults, ill performance and wastage of government resources.
Proper nutrition is one of the most essential elements to being healthy and living a long life. People deal with food every day, and food has been a part of life since the beginning of civilization. What we eat becomes our diet, and our diet plays a major role in deciding how healthy we are and how well our body functions. Without proper diet, our body cannot carry out the functions it needs to perform. Most people have some common knowledge on what is good and what is bad for the human body to consume. Fruits, vegetables, nuts, and grains are some common items people think of when they think of healthy foods. However, it is not enough just to know what foods are good for your body, it is also important to understand why certain foods are good for you and what they do to help the body function.
As they always say HEALTH IS WEALTH! Your food selection today, makes you enjoy for the moment and affects your health tomorrow and in the future!