nutrition

Question 1

nutrition

Answer 1

• diet= most important environmental influence
• if undernutrition is neither prolonged, nor server, children usually recover from any growth deficits by having a growth spurt once their diet becomes adequete

Question 2

malnutrition

Answer 2

• prolonged malnutrition has a serious impact especially after 5 years of life
• in many developing nations, as many as 85% of all children aged under r5 experience some form of malnutruition

Question 3

Marasmus

Answer 3

• affects babies who recieve insufficient protein and too few calories
• this can happen if the mother is malnourished and does not have the resources to provide her child the substitute of breast milk

Question 4

kwashikor

Answer 4

• affects children who recieve enough calories but not enough protein
• breast milk= protein, so many breast fed infants wont suffer
• they may develop K when they are weaned from the breast but then have no other source of protein
• thin hair, abdomen swelling

Question 5

overnutrition

Answer 5

• dietry excess is another form of poor nutrition., increased risks of obesity, type 2 diabetes, high blood pressure, liver and kidney disease

Question 6

prenatal exposure to the famine

Answer 6

• exposure to the famine associated with adverse metabolic and mental phenotypes later in life
• higher BMI
• elevated plasma lipids
• increased risks of schizo
• increased risk of cardiovascular disease

Question 7

measles

Answer 7

• highly contagious viral infection
• spread by respitory dropelts or direct contact to infected saliva
• vaccinated individuals have immunity to measles
• no treatment

Question 8

mumps

Answer 8

• contagious viral infection
• spread by respitory droplets or direct contact with infected saliva

Question 9

Mumps

Answer 9

• contagious viral infection
• spread respiartory droplets or direct contrast with infected saliva
• painful swelling in salivary glands and testes for men
• can occur at any point in a persons life

Question 10

vaccines

Answer 10

• estimated 19.4 million infants are still missing out on basic vaccines,
• around 60% of these children live in 10 countries.
• an additional 1.5 million deaths could be avoided