Malnutrition: Long-Term Effects Of Poor Nutrition On Children

According to the book Global Health 101, Malnutrition is various forms of poor nutrition. Underweight or stunting and overweight, as well as micronutrient deficiencies, are forms of malnutrition (Skolnik, 2016). In Sierra Leone, there are children who are suffering from malnutrition because they are not receiving the vitamins they need to be healthy. Without micronutrients, many children suffer from stunted growth and development or end up dying from diseases that their bodies should be able to fight off. I’m sure this problem will have long-term effects on the children if they do not get the nutrients early in life.

The people living in poverty stricken countries face the disadvantages of food shortages, and no access to food or resources to survive. The children are not eating adequate meals containing the nutrients to live healthy or most likely they’re not eating at all. Also, the food prices in the low-income countries cost too much for families to provide a healthy nutritious meal for their family.
Many improvements in nutrition can be enabled largely by communication efforts such as the promotion of breastfeeding, the introduction of appropriate complementary foods, and the eating of foods that are rich in certain micronutrients. Such communication efforts, however, are not put in place frequently enough or effectively enough (Skolnik,