Protein Malnutrition

Name: - Nikita A Vaidya

Class: - Nutrition 251

Date: - 03/03/2015

Protein Energy Malnutrition

The different foods are very important to human life because of foods have essentials different nutrients helping to properly growth and development of physically with mentally. Protein energy malnutrition is deficiency in protein, energy and other micro nutrients. This malnutrition disease can be affecting from not eating proper balance diet and recognize by physical appearance signs, dietary data and bio-medical data. Globally, Protein energy malnutrition is the growing other serious health problems of women and children and still remain serious issues in the hospitals. Malnutrition has fully affected to starving and other chronic diseases of age groups women and under five year old children that increasing weakness in the body. Protein energy malnutrition is led to mentally and physically growth failure with low activities. There are some factors affecting in age groups women and children malnutrition by social and economic factors, biological factors, and environmental factors. Also, protein energy malnutrition has symptoms mild to severe ranges and children are losing 20 percent or more ideal body weight in severe malnutrition. The purpose of mainly focus on reducing protein energy malnutrition in different age groups and provides information on balancing humans required financial resources, decreasing maternal mortality rates, nutrition education and healthy foods in the different countries health care centers and schools.

In developing and developed countries such as Africa, Asia, Latin America and United States are low and higher income group of children with female adults have more common this disease. Protein energy malnutrition children have most common symptoms defined the weight-for-age (underweight), height-for-age (stunting), and weight-for-height (wasting) and its causes the direct mortality, other serious diseases such as malaria, diarrhea,...