Nutrition for Global Health

Nutrition for Global Health

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All around the globe degrading health at the early ages is a problem (Black, et al.,
2013). It is due to the reason that people are not getting healthy diet at early ages. This is the
major problem for the low income or the developing nations. This is also due to the reason
the diseases and health condition of the people is very poor in these areas In the African and
Asian regions it has been seen that governments are trying very hard to ensure healthy diet
for the pregnant women. Child and maternal under nutrition cases are very high in some
parts of the world. Its affect can also been seen with the amount of diseases that is present in
these regions. The indicators associated with blood lipids, lungs, cardiovascular diseases,
cancers, mental illness, immune functionality showcased those families that do not have
higher incomes have the probability of generating various kinds of disease. In the country
like India there are many families that are having lower incomes and hence they are unable to
feed their infants and pregnant women (Ruel, Alderman and Maternal and Child Nutrition
Study Group, 2013). This has resulted in many types of diseases due to deficiency of
nutrients. Government of India is bringing the schemes so as to financially help the poor
women at the time of pregnancy so that they have nutritional food.
Under nutrition is generally considered as the lack of basic nutrients in the body of a person.
This gets generated due to improper or low nutritional meal in their daily life (Bhutta, et al.,
2013). Under nutrition is a type of malnutrition. This has a direct effect on the physical and
mental development of the child. They remain poor in their class performance as well as they
develop many diseases at the early stage of life which can lead to short life expectancy or life
full of diseases. Maternal nutrition at the time of pregnancy plays a crucial role in the
regulation of placental-fetal development and hence it has a lifelong effect on the
productivity and health of the child. In the development of child mother’s health matter a lot.
It is the fact that most of the development of the child happens when they are inside the
womb and hence they need to get nutrition at this time (Walker, et al., 2011). Birth weight is
positively associated with the functioning of the lungs. In the researches it was found that the
child who does not get proper diet at the early stages of life generally develops mental
disorders at the later stage. Impairments are caused due to under nutrition at the infant stages.
Damages caused at the early stages of life cannot be corrected at the later stages. It does not
only affect the individual but also affects the nation as their human capital becomes weak and
prone to several kinds of disease. This is due to the reason that the life style of the people
living there is below average and the women do not get the meal for two times so as to feed
their infants or the child in the womb (Imdad, Yakoob and Bhutta, 2011).

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Providing them with a healthy food is highly necessary as it is fact that the person who gets
nutritional food at the early stage has a good body mass index. Such kind of infants grows as
a healthy person with properly developed cells and various organs. This prevents them from
the attack or failure of any body part. The data recoded in many parts of the world shows that
people with lower body mass index in the early stages of life generally develop a chronic
disease that are dangerous (Luyckx, et al., 2013). In the last few decades the problem has
widened, this is due to the reason that the inflation has increased at much faster in many parts
of the world. The growth in the inflation has affected the poor families as they are unable to
get the right nutritional food when women in their family are pregnant. Apart from this the
women that are weaker at the time of child growth have their babies generally weak or
impaired (Ahmed, Hossain and Sanin, 2012). Nutritional deficiencies in the childhood have
created many problems at the later stage of life. This is due to the reason that one deficiency
leads to larger number of problems in the later stage.
In scientific terms it can be understood by the fact that the infant who have not got any
particular type of nutrient has not been able to develop any particular organ (Benny,
Georgiadis and Dornan, 2016). Every nutrient has a closer connection with the particular part
of the body. This is the reason that when any particular kind of nutrients gets missing or is
provided in lower amount in the diet of the mother at the time of her pregnancy, it leads to
huge diseases (Popkin, Adair and Ng, 2012).
In other context it is understood by the fact that if the mother lags any particular kind of
nutrients it gets transferred in the children. This leads to long term deficiencies in the babies.
Scarcity of iron in the blood of the mother generally increases the chances of child becoming
anaemic at the later stage of the life. This is most dangerous in the case of the girl child as
they also develop anaemia in the adulthood (Ngure, et al., 2014). If the mother has a protein
deficiency while she is pregnant her new born baby can have many kind of diseases like they
can get diseases related to the muscles of the body or generally it is seen that these children
remains thin throughout their life.
In the hilly region since there is lack of iodine in their food and hence children develops
disease like goitre and hence iodised salts are preferred in these areas. Due to poverty
children are unable to get quality food having higher nutrition content and hence their
immune system does not get developed properly (Victora, et al., 2011). This leads to more
number of diseases of which many are chronic and many are due to infections. Hence the

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doctors suggest a woman to have a healthy food at the time of pregnancy. It must increase as
per the development of child in the womb. In many parts of the world it is seen that people
have certain kind of believes related to food habit. Such believes reduces the intake some
particular kind of food and hence they develop any specific kind of deficiency in the body
health. This can be seen in the health disparities in urban and rural areas only because of
beliefs.
The case was not same all the time in various parts of the world and people were aware of
what kind of nutrition they need to provide to their child hence a better human capital was
present. In the later stage of the 20th century when the people started to move towards the
towns, people forgot their traditional believes and adopted a different kind of food habits.
These food habits led to many types of development of disease.
In poor families since people are slightly less educated and hence they do not give proper
attention to the meals. This is sometimes due to the reason that they do not have anything to
eat or many time they save money for other purpose. This negligence towards proper meals
leads to many kind of deficiencies in the person when they become adult (Huffman, et al.,
2011). The situation is getting degraded day by day. Since the poor are getting poorer with
everyday passing. According to UNO the condition of the African countries is worst. Due to
terrorism and scarcity of food the number of death of many children at early ages is a reality.
This carries on with the generation since the deficient mother always gives birth to the child
that lags some kind of nutrition in their body.
Poor nutrition before the age of 2 years can lead to improper growth of the child. For example
they remain of shorter height, their attendance in the schools remains on the lower side. In
Guatemala the research revealed that if the child below the age of three gets low amount of
nutrition in their meals generally has height 2 cm less than the people who can avail this
nutrition. Research related to Zimbabwe’s children health condition also shows the same
results (Dewey and Begum, 2011). In the rural areas of India it is noticed that the low cost
families have most of the members being underweight and they remain the same throughout
their life. The fates of the children are generally left in the hands of god. Since there is larger
population the countries like India and hence this is a bigger problem in these areas.