Malnutrition encompasses a state characterized by insufficient ingestion of vital nutrients essential for optimal health, growth, and development within an individual’s diet. This condition can arise from inadequate intake of crucial nutrients, impaired absorption mechanisms, or excessive excretion leading to nutrient loss from the body. Two primary categories of malnutrition exist: under nutrition and over…
Read MoreMalnutrition is a condition, where deficient or excess nutrient intake or imbalance of required micronutrients is on daily recommendations. The double burden of malnutrition (DBM) concept first emerged in the year,1992 at the International Conference on Nutrition (ICN) conducted by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) and the World Health Organization…
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