Your body needs calories, protein, and overall general nutrients to function. Without adequate nutrition, your muscles waste away, your bones become brittle, and your thinking become foggy. Calories ...

Marasmus is a form of severe malnutrition. It can occur in anyone who has severe malnutrition, but it usually occurs in children. It typically occurs in developing countries. Marasmus can be ...

Marasmus is a type of protein-energy malnutrition mainly seen in children. You can get marasmus if you have a severe deficiency of nutrients like calories, proteins, carbohydrates, vitamins, and ...

IN THE late 1980s David Barker, a British doctor, suggested that what a woman eats when she is pregnant shapes her child's physiology for life. He called the idea fetal programming. Such programming ...

Kwashiorkor is a severe form of malnutrition. It can be found in very severe cases of starvation and is more common in developing countries. About 45% of deaths worldwide in children under the age of ...

In 1933, a British Paeditrican, Cicely Williams, working in the then Gold Coast (now Ghana), described a syndrome in children usually between the ages of six months and four years, who had been ...

Severe malnutrition presenting as kwashiorkor or marasmus is still a significant health problem in developing countries (1,2). The HIV/AIDS epidemic has increased case fatality rates of severe ...

Child health experts have decried the increased cases of nutrition related infections and diseases among under-five children due to the economic hardship in the country. The paediatricians said the ...