HORTICULTURE SCIENCE
GENERAL AGRICULTURE
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Question
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A diet lacking key nutrients.
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A diet with not enough calories.
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A diet with too much protein.
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A diet consisting of more than 2, 000 calories per day.
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Detailed explanation-1: -Malnutrition is a serious condition that happens when your diet does not contain the right amount of nutrients. It means “poor nutrition” and can refer to: undernutrition – not getting enough nutrients. overnutrition – getting more nutrients than needed.
Detailed explanation-2: -Undernutrition. There are 4 broad sub-forms of undernutrition: wasting, stunting, underweight, and deficiencies in vitamins and minerals. Undernutrition makes children in particular much more vulnerable to disease and death.
Detailed explanation-3: -Malnutrition is a state in which prolonged lack of one or more nutrients retards physical development or causes specific clinical disorders, such as, iron deficiency anemia, goiter, to list a few. Malnutrition can also be defined as an impairment of health resulting from a deficiency, excess or imbalance of nutrition.