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MALNUTRITION

Malnutrition accours when there is deficiency of vitamins, minerals and other essential nutrients in our body that are essential for our body to maintain organ functions

PROBLEMS IN CHILDRENS

There are alot of problems a child has to faced due to malnutrition i will share some problems with you
1.As i have discussed that in malnutrition deficiency of vitamins accurs the deficiencies of different vitamins may cause different diseases like
Deficiency of vitamin D may cause rickets in children
Deficiency of vitamin A may cause night blindness
2.Due to malnutrition our immune system becomes weak due to which many antigens can enters the body and may cause diseases and when they get damage to their bodies these wounds will not heal properly
3.Due to malnutrition the children loss their body weight
4.Minerals deficiencies in malnutrition may cause many diseases like calcium deficiency may cause osteoporosis
Iodine deficiency may cause goiter
Iron deficiency may cause anemia
Due to malnutrition children can't grow property their muscle mass is lost they have less iq and they have to face alot of problems

FACTORS CONTRIBUTING TO MALNUTRITION

There are alot of factors that may leads to malnutrition in children i will share some of them with you
1.poverty
2.diseases like diarrhea
3.failure to breastfeed
4.poor intake of vitamins
5.poor intake of diet
6.poor nutrition during pregnancye.t.c

PREVENTION

We can prevent children from malnutrition by providing them with a healthy diet that contains vitamins minerals all the essential nutrients that are required for the normal functioning of cell

suggestions to improve the health of children

We can improve the health of children by taking some steps which includes
1.Awareness.people must aware of the diseases that may cause malnutrition they must be aware of the nutrients that are essential for the body's normal functioning they must be aware of the diet which contains all these essential nutrients they are educated about them
2.we should increase health benefits for the poor . poor people are not able to fulfill these nutrients in their diet due to poverty we should help them in this regard
3.we can improve health in developing countries by government should provide cost effective health packages to everyone
This is all about malnutrition
I hope you all will like it
At the end i would like to invite my friends @aaliarubab , @mile16 , @suboohi,@hiralytical to participate in this amazing contest

THANKS

#REGARDS
bismalaraib

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