Protein Energy 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, vomiting, pneumonia, and effects on the organ systems. It has been

The major food issues of concern are insufficient/ imbalanced intake of foods/nutrients. The common nutritional problems of public health importance in India are low birth weight, protein energy malnutrition in children, and chronic energy deficiency in adults, micronutrient malnutrition and diet-related non communicable diseases. However, diseases at the either end of the spectrum of malnutrition (under and over nutrition) are important. Recent evidences indicate that under nutrition in utero may set the pace for diet-related chronic diseases in later life. Population explosion, demographic changes, rapid urbanization and alterations in traditional habits contribute to the development of certain unhealthy dietary practices and physical inactivity, resulting in diet-related chronic diseases.
The dietary guidelines emphasize promotion of health and prevention of disease, of all age groups with special focus on vulnerable segments of the population such as infants, children and adolescents, pregnant and lactating women and the elderly. Other related factors, which need consideration are physical activity, health care, safe water supply and socio-economic development, all of which strongly influence nutrition and health. In this document, food-related approaches, both in qualitative and quantitative terms, have been incorporated. Emphasis is on positive recommendations whichcan maximize protective effects through use of a variety of foods in tune with traditional habits. The higher goals set with respect to certain food items such as pulses, milk and vegetables/fruits are intended to encourage appropriate policy decisions. Suitable messages for each of these guidelines have been highlighted. A variety of foods, which are available and are within the reach of the common man, can be selected to formulate nutritionally adequate diets.

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