Food and Nutrition

Malnutrition

Malnutrition occurs when an individual gets too little or too many nutrients, causing health complications. Malnutrition is a group of diseases that comprises undernutrition and overnutrition. Undernutrition is a lack of nutrients, which can result in inhibited growth, wasting, and underweight. An excess of nutrients causes overnutrition, which can result in overweight and obesity. There are 4 sub-forms of undernutrition: wasting, stunting, underweight, and deficiencies in vitamins and minerals. The top way to stop malnutrition is to eat a healthy, balanced diet. The consequences of long malnutrition are serially altered cellular metabolism, impaired function, and finally, loss of body tissues clinically, malnutrition is often associated with muscular dysfunction and weakness and altered immunity resulting in an increased risk of infection.