Children Malnutrition 2

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Children Malnutrition
Malnutrition is a condition that results from intake of excess unbalanced diet with several nutrients lacking or the just poor eating habits it can bring about certain ailments such as marasmus caused by general lack of food, kwashiorkor which is a lack of proteins, goiter which is caused by the lack of iodine, rickets which is a vitamin D deficiency, scurvy by lack of vitamin C and beriberi which is a lack of vitamin B. It is estimated that about 62 million persons die yearly from malnutrition and majority of this are in sub-Saharan Africa and Asia due to high dependency on rainfall to grow food. Problems of storage are also a contributing factor as when there is good harvest, lots of the food is lost to pests and fungi; leading to an acceleration to high poverty levels (Torpy Et al. 2010). It reduces the immune system creating opportunistic diseases to attack the body and cause pain and suffering and eventually death. There are some countries which have come up with the supplement distribution in a bid to curb the various diseases and stop deaths/deformation. In the United States of America, about half of the population is obese due to lack of exercise, poor diet of the likes of high carbohydrates and junk food.
The millennium declaration development goals were adopted by world leaders in the year 2000 and were set to be achieved in fifteen years. This was outlined because of the vast poverty levels and high death rates that can be easily avoided and to provide better living conditions through jobs to persons especially because of the development. For the topic at hand, on malnutrition, the following goals will be useful in the betterment of the people’s lives:
 HYPERLINK "/mdg/goal1.shtml" Goal 1: Eradicate extreme poverty and hung...