Question

What is malnutrition? What are the reasons for it? What are the different types of malnutrition?

Answer 1

1. Eating of food that does not have one or more than one nutrients in required amount is known as malnutrition.
2. Reasons for malnutrition: Poor health, will-full starvation, lack of awareness of nutritional habits, socio economic factors are all the reasons for malnutrition.
3. Different types of Malnutrition:
   1. Calorie malnutrition,
   2. Protein malnutrition and
   3. Protein calorie malnutrition.