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Amrita Neupane
Health 1020
Paul Roberts
Research Paper on Malnutrition
Malnutrition
individual
health
is
referred
and
as
well-being
the
measurable
causing
from
weakening
to
insufficient
or
Bank
stated,
the
largest
proportions
of
food
insecure
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to
physical
activities, work
performance,
cognitive
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the 1970s emphasis shifted to energy on the reasoning that if
nutritionally deprived children could get sufficient quantities of their
traditional balanced diet, protein would take care of itself. This
nutritional improvement through the initiatives probably improved the
lives of the malnourished children and reduced the risk of increasing
malnutrition. The research further revealed that the agricultural
intensification agenda of the green revolution was emphasized on
producing heaps of food cereals such as rice, wheat, maize in Asia and
Latin America but diminishing protein-balanced cereal legume crops
mixed. The long term national economic growth and development
became a part of integrated national nutrition and rural development
strategies. These strategies were promoted by the World Bank and
other foreign agencies that launched national material child-health
and school feeding programs. They addressed poverty alleviation and
malnutrition.
In the late 1980s and early 1990s priorities and framing shifted yet
again, this time to ending "hidden hunger." With UNICEF taking the
lead, the World Summit for Children (WSC) in 1990 set goals to
reduce--by half-- mild to moderate energy-protein malnutrition, which
had been implicated in more than half of child deaths in the developing
world, and virtual elimination of vitamin A, iodine, and iron deficiencies
as public health problems. The diseases like beriberi, pellagra,
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kwashiorkor, rickets, and scurvy were eliminated by the dietary
diversification.
The World Summit for Children (WSC) emphasized on ending vitamin A
deficiency blindness and impaired immune response, cretinism and
goiter anemias. Simultaneously WSC developed a goal to correct more
moderate deficiencies, which researchers showed could depress
physical and intellectual development, quality work performance and
child survival.
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Hungry? And How Do We Know? Food Shortage, Poverty, and
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Food and Agricultural Organization. 2011. State of Food Insecurity in
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Runge, C. Ford, Benjamin Senauer, Philip G. Pardey, and Mark W.
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