State of malnutrition and its fast growing wing in developing countries
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Cím:
State of malnutrition and its fast growing wing in developing countries
Létrehozó:
Arega, Mulatu
Dátum:
2014
Téma:
HM4 Social processes / társadalmi folyamatok
Tartalmi leírás:
Nutrition is one of the most important issues for the well
-
being of
human life. It concerns rich
and poor, rural and urban, developed and developing countries. Since, it is not a specific
problem for some part of the world only, like most other problems, it should get serious
attention as it deserves.. Accordingly, differ
ent literatures show that, f
or millions of people
worldwide, hunger and malnutrition are common everyday challenges; for some, even famine
is a threat. But in many developed countries, food abundance brings other serious nutritional
and health problems. Th
ough these are being addressed, western habits are starting to spread.
However, most of literatures focus more on the undernutrition aspect of malnutrition, rather
than overnutrition. Malnutrition is a broad term which refers to both undernutrition (sub
nutrition) and overnutrition. Individuals are malnourished, or suffer from undernutrition if their
diet does not provide them with adequate calories and protein for maintenance and growth, or
they cannot fully utilize the food they eat due to illness. Peop
le are also malnourished, or suffer
from overnutrition if they consume too many calories.
According to the World Health
Organization (WHO), malnutrition is the gravest single threat to global public health
. And
according to the Food and Agriculture Organiz
ation (FAO),
the number of people globally who
were malnourished stood at 923 million in 2007, an increase of over 80 million since the 1990
-
92 base
-
period.
In more wealthy industrialized nations malnutrition is usually caused by:
Poor
diet,
mental health
problems,
Mobility problems,
digestive disorders and stomach conditions,
alcoholism. In poor, developing nations malnutrition is commonly caused by: Food shortages,
Food prices, food distribution and Lack of breastfeeding.
In this research nine countries
from different continent are included. And the result of this
assessment shows that there is high
-
rate of growth as far as overnutrition is concerned, in both
high income and low income countries for both sexes. And the percentage growth of overweight
and
obesity for some low
-
income countries is very significant. Cameron is the one that shows
high obesity rate from the low
-
income countries. And, France is the country that shows a low
growth rate for overweight from high
-
income countries. The study also fig
ure out that, there is
a high positive relationship between the energy consumption and overweight.
Típus:
Article
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Formátum:
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Azonosító:
Arega, Mulatu (2014) State of malnutrition and its fast growing wing in developing countries. Studia Mundi ? Economica, 1 (1). pp. 79-86. ISSN 2415-9395
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