Thursday, June 10, 2010

Prevention of obesity and malnutrition

In child nutrition issues, there was not only malnutrition, but also there is the tendency of nutrition, but also quite common and more serious. Both tend to the harm to children are particularly noteworthy.
All children in the growth and development, requires adequate and balanced protein, fat and carbohydrates, various vitamins and minerals needed supplies, such as cellulose.
A seemingly healthy child, not necessarily true health, a lot of fat in infants, children tend to have significant malnutrition, such as suffering from calcium deficiency, iron deficiency anemia or bone dysplasia, or a vitamin deficiency.
The past ten years, our children phenomenon in overweight or obese increases alarmingly, this is a very worrying problem. Obesity will be a variety of health risk, it will increase the young people in the incidence of hyperlipidemia, atherosclerosis and to occur earlier. According to the United States more than 50 years follow up study, found that overweight adolescent population, who died of heart disease or stroke significantly increased mortality from diseases not related with adult body weight. In addition, adolescent overweight people suffering from arthritis (especially knee), gout, diabetes and the incidence of fractures is also higher than the average person.

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