Nutrition- Case Study

Running head: NUTRITION- CASE STUDY
Nutrition- Case Study
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Executive Summary
The below paper discussed about malnutrition and its impact in daily life. Malnutrition leads
to many chronic diseases like heart disease, diabetes type 2. There are four types of
malnutrition. The paper also discusses about a case study where the client is underweight,
which is identified by body mass index. The patient also suffers from high cholesterol and
due to defective lifestyle. Proper balanced diet is essential in maintaining the condition. There
are several barriers in approaching the therapy for patients. Lastly, the paper discusses about
the diet plan based upon the case study.

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Table of Contents
Introduction................................................................................................................................3
Discussion..................................................................................................................................4
Definition...............................................................................................................................4
Prevalence..............................................................................................................................5
Causes of malnutrition...........................................................................................................6
Diet.........................................................................................................................................7
Diet plan for the client............................................................................................................8
Lifestyle..................................................................................................................................9
Lifestyle factors that influence health................................................................................9
Lifestyle recommendation, eating and behaviour..............................................................9
Therapeutic approach...........................................................................................................10
Conclusion................................................................................................................................11
References................................................................................................................................12

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Introduction
Nutrition or healthy nutrition is an essential part of life, which helps in leading a
healthy lifestyle. It is combined with both physical activities and diet, leading to maintain a
healthy weight (Leslie and Hankey 2015). It helps in the prevention of many diseases,
especially heart disease and cancer, contributing good health overall. It can be demarcated as
a progression, by which the organism’s ingestion, digestion, absorption, transportation of
nutrients takes place, and the product is deposited. Food is an essential component that is
used as a fuel; there are different types of food such as energy giving food, bodybuilding
food, protective foods and regulatory food (Thomas 2018). The nutritional disorder is
harmful to human life, severally affecting life. These disorders include obesity, underweight
condition, anaemia, cardiovascular diseases, cancer, diabetes, gastrointestinal disorders and
many more (Crimmins 2015). Nutritional deficiency happens when the body fails to absorb
nutrients incorrect amount for maintaining the physiological functions of the body. The
deficiency may lead to skin problems, defective muscular disorder, high cholesterol and even
psychological disorder. The deficiency also affects the development of the body’s immune
system. It also influences the development of infectious diseases, enhancing bacterial growth
and systemic infectious diseases. Malnutrition or malfunctioning of the body is the weakened
metabolism of the body due to prolonged deficiency or excess consumption of energy-related
food. It includes protein, fatty acids and vitamins. There are several symptoms of this
condition, like impaired digestion, malabsorption and loss of appetite (Krzyminska-Siemazko
et al. 2016). There are four types of malnutrition that are broadly classified like wasting,
underweight, stunting and deficiency of micronutrients. The main purpose of the below paper
is to identify the malnutrition disorder based upon a case study and to suggest an effective
lifestyle in reducing the condition and leading a healthy life.