Abstract
This paper addresses the problem of malnutrition in developing countries and lists the primary causes and factors of its occurrence. The author notes that marasmus and kwashiorkor are the two most prevalent forms of malnutrition and goes on to describe the characteristics, signs and symptoms of these two forms of malnutrition before focusing on kwashiorkor, providing various treatment methods. The paper also argues that in this day and age when technology enables one to fly to outer space, finding a way to curb malnutrition in developing countries should not be an issue. In closing, the author persuades a committed intervention to stop this outrage.

From the Paper
"Learning that our agricultural resources have the means to produce ample food to feed everyone on our planet, and that malnutrition and starvation aren't necessary, made this even more disturbing. Poverty is the primary cause, with factors including, man-made and natural disasters, discrimination, (especially against women) racism, corruption, and the HIV/AIDS epidemic, as contributing issues."

Tags:starvation under-nutrition, developing countries

Abstract
This paper examines how malnutrition is a result of improper food diet and unhealthy eating habits and how malnutrition is a health disorder not only associated with hunger, but also with overeating. It looks at how malnutrition is a prevalent health disorder that can result to death if it goes undetected or if no immediate and proper medical intervention is used. It analyzes how among the solutions offered to prevent malnutrition, subsisting to a proper food diet remains to be the most effective and feasible solution.

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"Malnutrition, as classified earlier, can be identified into two types or conditions: undernutrition or overnutrition. Undernutrition is a form of malnutrition wherein there is an undersupply of essential vitamins and minerals needed by the body, while overnutrition stems from an oversupply of certain nutrients and minerals in the body. Malnutrition is caused by various factors, which includes an individual's vulnerability to health disorders due to fragile physical health conditions and different lifestyles. The first category, wherein physical health conditions determine an individual's vulnerability to malnutrition, is aptly related to infants, children, pregnant women, and the elderly."

Tags:food, vitamins, overeating, obesity, hunger

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This paper explores the causes and contributing factors linked with malnutrition in the elderly. It also addresses ways to assess malnutrition in the aging population. The paper then focuses on interventions for malnutrition in the elderly in terms of health promotion principles and strategies. Additionally, the paper looks at primary, secondary and tertiary interventions.

Table of Contents:
Introduction
Significance for Elderly Population
Assessment
Health Teaching and Learning Strategies
Conclusion

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"One strategy for teaching and health promotion is to make use of mentors who also are peers of the elderly person. It is essential that, whatever the specific type of health promotion program, the elderly person participate fully. The strategy of using volunteer peer educators is based in social learning theory as defined by the World Health organization, and can be very effective for providing nutrition education for the elderly (Panayota & Amanatidou 2003). Peer mentors mainly act as a support system for providing reliable nutrition information as well as educational materials. These mentors need to understand and practice healthy nutrition and preferably also be somewhat experienced with teaching. It is preferable that these mentors be experts on nutrition because research indicates that older people prefer that all their information related to health should come from expert sources (Panayota & Amanatidou 2003)."

Tags:vitamin, mineral, supplementation, diet, health, energy

Abstract
This paper examines the risks of malnutrition among the elderly, which is actually under-nutrition and a major risk factor for death as well as a contributing factor in aggravating the progression of a number of age-related diseases. Additionally, this paper explores the causes and contributing factors linked with malnutrition in the elderly, addressing assessment of malnutrition in the aging population and interventions in terms of health promotion principles and strategies.

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"Malnutrition among the elderly is actually under-nutrition, and is a major risk factor for death among older people as well as a contributing factor in aggravating the progression of a number of age-related diseases (Salva & Corman, 2004). This paper will explore the causes and contributing factors linked with malnutrition in the elderly. I will also address..."

Tags:diet, elderly, teaching

Abstract
This paper explains that, although some experts contend that heart disease and malnutrition is mainly a problem of industrialized nations, populations held back by economic and other factors often lack public education about health, wellness and the nutritional behaviors that could prevent heart disease. The author stresses the importance of proper infant-stage nutrition, which is needed to avoid developing heart diseases as an adult. The paper recommends that patients with malnutrition be normalized nutritionally through an adequate delivery system to decrease heart disease risks determined through a professional assessment program.

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"Williams' article takes up the abovementioned argument about whether heart disease is more common in industrialized or developing nations, and concludes that the industrialization process does lead to changes in dietary habits that may lead to this state of being. "Heart disease, cancer, and other degenerative disorders are most frequent among populations of the industrialized nations. These diseases have been increasing rapidly over the past few generations, making it easy for the petro-chemical-medical-pharmaceutical-complex to assign blame to bad genes, while ignoring the issues of increased environmental degradation and deteriorating nutrition over the same time frame." This is an opinionated article within the literature but it nonetheless supports albeit subjectively the conclusion that heart disease can be linked to malnutrition.

Tags:education, infant-stage, normalized, risks, exercise

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This paper reviews and analyzes Wines's 2006 article entitled "Child health and development in Africa: Malnutrition" which begins by considering whether it is worse for children in Africa to die of malnutrition or to survive while being stunted intellectually. The thesis is that malnutrition does not usually cause death but creates a worse impact in terms of physical and mental handicaps. As well as being continually ill, these children who are lacking essential nutrients cannot focus on learning. This article is concerned with Ethiopia where almost one-half of all children suffer from malnutrition. The point is heavily stressed that malnutrition is not a short-term condition but one that impacts on all of life.

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"Wines (2006) begins by considering whether it is worse for children in Africa to die of malnutrition or to survive while being stunted intellectually. The thesis is that malnutrition does not usually cause death but creates a worse impact in terms of physical and mental handicaps. As well as being continually ill, these children who are lacking essential nutrients cannot focus on learning. This article is concerned with Ethiopia where almost one-half of all children suffer from malnutrition. The point is heavily stressed that malnutrition is not a..."

Tags:child, malnutrition, africa

Abstract
In this article, the writer examines a community health issue, that of malnutrition. The writer suggests two interventions based on nursing theory by Dorothea Orem and Margarent Newman.

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"One of the most overlooked yet critical needs of 21st-century communities is nutrition. The American diet is overloaded with fats sugars and calories and the average American-although assailed with information about dieting-is relatively uninformed in terms of understanding what a healthy diet should contain and what foods and food additives should be avoided to maintain health. This is a problem that the community nurse can and should address. This paper examines the issue of malnutrition within the community offering two possible ..."

Tags:Oren, Margaret Newman, Self-Deficit Theory, Theory of Health, malnutrition, nutrition, supplement, education, community health issue

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This article discusses the the factors used to calculate the Global Hunger Index (GHI): the proportion of undernourished as a percentage of the population, the prevalence of underweight children under the age of five, and the mortality rate of children under the age of five. It also suggests the measures required to be taken for each region to improve GHI in their respective countries. Several charts, and tables are included with the paper.

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"India's Hunger Index consists of the three components in the following ratio:-- 20:42.5:7.4 (or simply speaking, it is 2.7: 5.7:1). The average of these three values is 23.3, which is India's GHI, 2008. This ratio between various components of the GHI varies from country to country and from state to state in a country. This suggests that the underweight children's proportion is more than double of proportion of the undernourished children, which needs to be explained. It is quite understandable that underweight of all the children may not prove to be fatal. There can be various reasons for that, one of the most important being the issues connected with measurement of malnutrition. Purnima Menon, Anil Deolalikar and Anjor Bhaskar in The India State Hunger Index: Comparisons Of Hunger Across States(2008) have analysed the trends of various States of India based on data taken mainly from NFHS-III and 61th round of National Sample Survey, in which the norms for malnutrition and poverty differ from the FAO standards. They have explained the variation of GHI from 1994 and 2008 in terms of the States' growth rates (SGDP) during the period. As per the study, though there exists a strong relationship between India State Hunger Index (ISHI) and population below poverty-line, a few states deviate from the predicted line. Gujarat and Madhya Pradesh are clear "negative outliers", meaning that they have a much higher hunger index than would be expected based on their poverty level; Punjab, Orissa and Kerala, on the other hand, stand out as "positive deviants"- that is, they have significantly lower hunger index scores than would be expected of states with their level of poverty. Similarly, they found an inverse relationship between the per capita growth and ISHI but there also, there were deviant states. For instance, Madhya Pradesh again stands out as having a much higher level of hunger than would be expected based on its per capita income; Jharkhand and Chhattisgarh are also "negative outliers", as is Maharashtra which has a hunger index almost as high as that of Orissa , but a NSDP twice as large. Several states are also doing better than expected given their economic level, with Punjab being a noticeable positive outlier, and, to a smaller extent, Kerala, Assam and Rajasthan. For these deviations, their study suggests that a closer look at the past and the present investments by the states in social protection, health and nutrition can help inform the debate on the policy initiatives to protect population against hunger even in face of poverty."

Tags:GHI, Poverty, Total Fertility Rate, UN Millennium Goals

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This paper provides facts and figures about malnutrition statistics amongst babies and toddlers. It explains that a high percentage of children are malnutritioned simply because of their fussy eating habits and not because of neglect. Following an introduction of the data, the paper examines 21 literary sources and summarizes the opinions of each one for the causes and consequences of toddler malnutrition and what can be do to reverse this trend.

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"According to the United States Department of Agriculture, barely of all toddlers and preschoolers today eat a balanced diet (Schaaf 2002), a serious health concern to all, especially to parents. Undersecretary of Food, Nutrition and Consumer Services Shirley Watkins ascribes the situation to the fact that, when these young children stop being breastfed and receiving baby foods in jars, their regular servings of milk, fruits and vegetables do not replace the nutrients they used to get from breast milk and jarred baby foods."

Tags:nutrients, malnutrition, food, child

Abstract
This paper presents an overview of the disorders Bulimia nervosa and Hypothyroidism, including a description of both syndromes and their effects (diagnoses/onset of Bulimia and role of thyroid gland), as well as a review of various research findings interconnecting the two. In particular, long term damaging effects of Bulimia such as low blood sugar and hyperglycemia, lower resting metabolic rates, and malnutrition are examined in order to correlate it with the possible onset of hypothyroidism.

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"A brief description of Bulimia Nervosa according to the latest DSM IV entails recurrent episodes of binge eating characterized of larger than normal portions in shorter than average time spans. These episodes are accompanied by a lack of control over feeding behavior and typically followed by a period of compensatory behavior such as self-induced vomiting; misuse of laxatives, diuretics, enemas, or other medications; fasting, or excessive exercise. Binges and purges occur in ongoing cycles for an average of at least twice a week for three months. An onset of bulimia usually occurs in later adolescence and more prevalent in females. People suffering this condition may or may not be overweight and may or may not have suffered previously or are concurrently suffering from Anorexia Nervosa."

Tags:bulimia, disorder, eating, expermimental, fasting, hormones, hypothalamus, hypothyroid, malnutrition, pituitary, pyschology, research, thyroid