Aspect of Global Nutrition

Question 1

Individual in developing countries are more at risk for:

World’s Health

Answer 1

• Shorter life expectancies
• Malnutrition
• Infectious disease

Question 2

Health is monitored by tracking: (World’s Health)

Answer 2

Key environmental, health and behavior characteristics

Question 3

Health outcomes related to malnutrition: (World’s Health)

Answer 3

• Low birth weight and underweight
• Rates of breast-feeding
• Access to safe water supply

Question 4

Nutrition Transition

Answer 4

A change in a population’s diet from traditional foods such as grains, roots, beans, and rice to calorie dense foods high in sugar, fat, sodium, and other components that characterize Western diets

Question 5

Change in population’s diet from traditional to Western diet (Nutrition Transition)

Answer 5

• Often will experience rise in obesity rates

- High rates of underweight and undernutrition

Question 6

Malnutrition effect:

Answer 6

-Malnutrition before the brain is developed has lasting effect on its development
(Brain growth occurs during pregnancy to 2 years old)
-Weakens the immune system and increase risk of infection
-Deaths in children under age 5 in developing countries are related to both malnutrition and infection

Question 7

Why does starvation and malnutrition occur?

Answer 7

• Poverty
• Women & children (female) are at particular risk in societies where food is allocated to men and boys first
• Corrupt governance
• Unsafe water
• Low level of education
• Lack of economic opportunities
• Low agriculture productivity

Question 8

Ending Malnutrition

Answer 8

• Education & Economic development
• Peace
• Population growth control
• Improved sanitation
• Social equality for women & children
• Agricultural policies and practices