Malnutrition

Consumption on a person's diet determines the level of health or nutritional status is often called. If the body is in optimum level of nutritional health in the body tissue, which fulfilled the necessary nutrients, it is called an optimum nutritional status. In such conditions the body free from disease and have durability is excellent. However, if the consumption of a person's diet is not balanced with the needs of the body will be in error due to nutrition (malnutrition). Malnutrition can be classified in 2 types, namely:

1. Excess nutrients (overnutrition). Excess nutrients lead to more degenerative diseases. Degenerative diseases are diseases that accompany the aging process. Degenerative disease that is often experienced includes:
• Obesity
• Heart disease
• Diabetes
• Stroke
• Osteoporosis
2. Nutritional deficiencies (undernutrition). In general, the type of malnutrition is common in children under 5 years of age because in this stage that the human body's growth is very rapid, which is surprising is the source of information from Unicef. Unicef says, every minute 10 children died from malnutrition, more than 3 / 4 the number of children in developing countries under the weight of normal and disease caused by lack of food intake. Also mentioned, in some areas almost half of all children aged under five years of malnutrition, infectious disease, muscle weakness and lack of vitamins. On the other hand, Unicef found that very opposite of data, where more than 170 million children, especially in developed countries, are obese or overweight. This amount includes obese children who are under age five years.
   Types of diseases caused by malnutrition that is often experienced, especially children under the age of five years is:
   
• Protein Calorie Malnutrition (PCM)
• Vitamin A deficiency
• Iron deficiency (anemia nutrition)
• Iodine deficiency
  

Prevention diseases caused by nutritional errors, closely related to food regulation, which is always concerned with nutrition of the food we eat, reducing portion sizes, reducing the consumption of sugar, salt, fat, and increase consumption of fibrous foods such as vegetables and fruit. This means finding new ways to eat and develop new habits for even everyday activities so that your new way you eat into your new lifestyle.