Written by: Phoebe Shrestha - 26016, Grade IX
Posted on: 10 June, 2022
Nutrition is the process of providing any type of essential growth and for its proper growth is also known as nutrition. A healthy diet is one that helps to maintain or improve our health. It is important for the prevention of many types of health risks such as; cancer, diabetes, heart disease etc. Lack of nutrition can also be the reason for people's death. We need to avoid such food which has chemicals in it or food which damages our health, especially junk food. Many kinds of food with good nutritional value are good for our health. There are fats, vitamins, carbohydrates, minerals, and water etc. and many more are the requirements we need in our body. Water and vitamins are called protective nutrition, fats and carbohydrates are called energy producing nutrition which we require in our daily lives. A healthy diet is one that helps to maintain or improve health. It is important for the prevention of many types of health risks such as; diabetes, heart disease, cancer etc. Lack of nutrition can also be the reason for many people's death. There are different types of nutrition health problems such as malnutrition, marasmus, kwashiorkor etc.
Malnutrition is caused due to lack of nutrition or overeating day to day life. Malnutrition is mostly found in poor or undeveloped country like Nepal where some women’s give birth and don’t get a proper diet and give birth to the child who have already been suffered from malnutrition .According to UNICEF,WHO, hundreds or thousands of children die every year due to malnutrition. In Countries like Nepal many children die due to lack of nutrition which causes death and for some rich countries people give high amounts of nutrition to their children to avoid malnutrition or lack of nutrition. Any type of improper diet also causes malnutrition .Poverty, Habits of eating a lot of Junk food ,lack of immunity, lack of nutritious food for children, etc. are the reasons for malnutrition. And these days Junk Food has been a common problem for everyone and to those children who eat junk food daily have no idea of their future and their health results. Many people give their food priority to junk food as well rather than eating healthy food. Another disease like malnutrition, there is marasmus. Many people intend to go on an extreme diet which takes them to starvation. So, marasmus causes starvation. Due to lack of knowledge of nutrition, starvation, lack of healthy food etc. are the causes of marasmus. There are some symptoms like; unusual weight loss, dry skin, skinny look are the symptoms of marasmus. There should be a proper diet to avoid these types of diseases which are really harmful to our health and can also cause death in future. To overcome all diseases we need to have knowledge about it. We always need to be healthy and be ready to fight with the germs inside our body. We all must be aware of these things which are really harmful to our health. Students should especially focus on eating nutritious meals as they require it the most.
