Explain The Key Issues That Affect A Child's Physical Development

For this assignment I will be discussing the key issues that affect a child’s physical development, there are many key issues relating to this, however I will only be focusing on two key issues which are how poor nutrition affects a child’s physical development and how the environment affects a child’s physical development. I will be focusing on a child under the age of 5 years.

The first key issue I am going to discuss is how poor nutrition affects a child’s physical development. A child's nutrition is very important, especially for children who are under the age of 5 as this is when a child’s development increases the most, children of this age grow rapidly therefore it is important for them to have the correct nutrition for their bodies
This translates into the unnecessary loss of about 3 million young lives a year.’ (http://data.unicef.org/topic/nutrition/malnutrition/). undernourished children’s development will be delayed and this can't be fixed when the child is older. ‘Children who are malnourished are at a disadvantage when it comes to cognitive and physical development because their brains and bodies don't have the nutrition they need to grow.’
Lack of exercise is an important key issue to the chosen theme because I read an article that shows the the negative effects if children do not have enough exercise, this includes, a higher risk of becoming overweight in adulthood or other related weight issues which can lead to other health related problems such as heart disease, a lack of exercise in children can cause them to have weaker muscles which means that they are unable to carry out physical tasks as well compared to children who do exercise and are active and they are also at a higher risk of developing type 2 diabetes.