Area of Focus: Malnutrition, Diet, Disease, and Education

Created: Jan 05, 2007
Updated: Jun 06, 2007

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Malnutrition, Diet, Disease, and Education

Life loss from malnutrition has been calculated in disability-adjusted life years (DALYs). The World Bank conservatively estimates about 14.5 million life years lost per year from malnutrition, or about eight out of every one thousand persons. More than half occur in children from birth to four years. The main deficiencies are protein, Vitamin A, iodine, and anemia. Diarrhea prevents nutrition absorption and is a primary cause of malnutrition. Malnutrition may have social causes (men eat before women, women before children; single working mothers serve junk food; colonially imposed crops like cassava are not balanced with complementary foods). Diet and nutrition education refers to the practice of educating, teaching, training, and imparting knowledge, ideas, and skills to people about diet, nutrition, additives, food safety, diseases related to undernourishment or malnutrition, exercise, eating habits, and lifestyle choices that affect health to improve their quality and length of life.

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Oldways is a widely respected nonprofit food issues advocacy group praised for translating the complex details of nutrition science into the familiar language of food.

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Utahns Against Hunger believes that hunger can end. Utahns Against Hunger works to eliminate hunger in a number of ways, from working with emergency food pantries and expanding child nutrition programs to improving public policy on related issues.

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Montana Hunger Coalition's statewide volunteers have worked successfully to increase the availability and accessibility of food and accurate nutrition education through our work in research, public education, public policy and advocacy.

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nutrition, obesity, food choices, healthy eating, disease, exercise, health literacy, food intake, eating patterns, food contents disclosure, additives, vitamins, carbohydrates, fat, protein, dairy, fruit, vegetables, balanced diet, additives, food deficits, World Food Program, malnutrition, food deficiencies, iodine, Vitamin A, diarrhea, junk food, slow food

"Food is the moral right of all who are born into this world."
-Norman Borlaug

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