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    Malnutrition threatens the lives of millions of children globally, with 7.7% of children under 5 suffering from wasting and 22.9% suffering from stunting. Wasting in children results from hunger and disease and leaves children vulnerable to illness, developmental delays, and increased risk of death. The best individual criteria for determining malnutrition include feeling weak, losing weight without trying, frequent illness, slow recovery, and digestive problems. Malnutrition is often caused by poor diet, infection, and poverty.

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    Malnutrition threatens the lives of millions of children globally, with 7.7% of children under 5 suffering from wasting and 22.9% suffering from stunting. Wasting in children results from hunger and disease and leaves children vulnerable to illness, developmental delays, and increased risk of death. The best individual criteria for determining malnutrition include feeling weak, losing weight without trying, frequent illness, slow recovery, and digestive problems. Malnutrition is often caused by poor diet, infection, and poverty.

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    Good nutrtion allows children to grow, develop, learn, play, participate and contribute

    to all activity, while malnutrition robs children of their futures and leaves young lives
    hanging in the balance

    In 2016, wasting continued to threaten the lives of an estimated 7.7 % or nearly 52 milion
    children under 5 globally, while 22.9 % or 154.8 million children under 5 are stunting. In
    asia, the ratio of stunted, overweight and wasted children are about 4.5 : 1 : 1.8

    Wasting in children is the life-threatening result of hunger and/or disease. Children


    suffering from wasting have weakend immunity and are susceptible to long term
    developmental delays, and face an increased risk of death.

    These are the best an individual criteria to capture the state of malnutrition

     Feeling weak and loss of appetite


     Losing weight without trying (which can be measure using anthropometry)
     Becoming sick more often
     Long recovery from illness
     Having digestive problems
     Slow wound healing

    Many factors can cause malnutrition, most of which relate to poor diet or severe and
    repeated infections, particularly in underprivileged populations (poverty), an illness
    changes consumption habits, difficulty chewing or swallowing and unintended weight
    loss/gain of 5 kg in 6 months

    References :
    Cederholm, T., Bosaeus, I., Barazzoni, R., & Bauer, J. (2015). Diagnostic Criteria for Malnutrition - An
    ASPEN Consensus Statement. Clinical Nutrition, 335-340.

    UNICEF and WHO. (2017). Levels and trends in Child Malnutrition. Washington DC: UNICEF, WHO and
    World Bank Group.

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