Nutrition/malnutrition
This
topic is so important because healthy children are the key to healthy learners. Good nutrition
is possible only if you eat balanced diets and practice good eating habits. As well as providing the kids with the Essential
vitamins and minerals in the diet that are vital to boost immunity and healthy
development. Vitamin A, zinc, iron and iodine deficiencies are primary public
health concerns.
Malnutrition lacks the nutrients necessary for their bodies
to grow and stay healthy. Malnutrition can affect someone's physical and mental
health. People who are suffering from malnutrition are more likely to get sick;
in very severe cases, they may even die from its effects. Kids who are chronically malnourished don't grow
as tall as they should and are underweight as well. This results when the body doesn't get
the proper kind and the right amount of nutrients that it needs for growth and
survival.
About 2 billion people are affected by
inadequate iodine nutrition worldwide. More than one third of preschool-age
children globally are vitamin A deficient. Vitamin A deficiency is the leading
cause of preventable blindness in children.
In Africa is among the children with highest in Eastern Africa 42%
were affected as of 2011 this is a major contributor to disease and early deaths
for mothers and children Under nutrition, including vitamin and mineral
deficiencies, contributes to about one third of all child deaths, and impairs
healthy development and life-long productivity. At the same time, growing rates
of overweight are linked to a rise in chronic diseases. The result is a double
burden of malnutrition slows down, brain development lags and stunted children
learn poorly.
As an early childhood professional I am
fully aware of how important it is to have healthy kids, not eating right can
make kids sick can cause problems with growing and developing. Kids especially
need to eat healthy food and enough of it to grow and develop and order for
children to learn they have be full and not sick to get a good understanding of
what they are learning.
