Nutrition, Food Science and Technology

Nutritional Epidemiology & Malnutrition

Malnutrition is a significant global health concern, especially in children under five years of age and pregnant women. Malnutrition, though significant in developed countries, continues to be a major health concern in developing countries. Malnutrition, subsist of protein-energy malnutrition and micronutrient shortage, is globally the most important risk factor for morbidity and mortality. Particularly, hundreds of millions of pregnant women and young children are concerned by malnutrition. In the past decade, discourse about the challenge of malnutrition has raise considerably at both national and international levels. Several studies beyond many diagnostic groups have documented energy, protein and micronutrient intake, especially, iron and calcium to be deficient to meet the nutritional requirements. Malnutrition is specially a problem in institutionalized patients.