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Topic 3

Topic Title: %NS (Nutritional Status)

Introduction:

Nutritional status is very important to everyone since it is a requirement of health of

a person convinced by the diet, the levels of nutrients containing in the body and
normal metabolic integrity. Normal nutritional status is managed by balance food
consumption and normal utilization of nutrients. Once a person knows his/her NS, it is
a midway for his/her in being careful and cautious of what are the food intakes he/she
should have in order to achieve and maintain good NS.

Topic Objectives:

→ Explain the significance of actual weight (AW) and DBW in determining % NS

→ Compute for one’s percentage nutritional status (%NS), infant’s and children’s,
adult’s
→ Interpret the computed result of %NS

Topic Contents

The state of a person’s health in terms of the nutrients in his or her diet. [1]
Nutritional status is a need/demand of health of a person convinced by the diet, the
levels of nutrients containing in the body and normal metabolic wholeness. Normal
nutritional status is managed by balance food consumption and normal utilization
of nutrients. Malnutrition is caused by imbalance food intake and faulty utilization of
nutrients. [2]

The state of a person’s health in terms of the nutrients in his or her diet. [1]

Why is nutritional status important?

The nutritional status of an individual is usually an outcome of different factors that

interrelate with each other at different levels. Aspects which are important for public

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health are: recognizing the role of diet at the onset of many diseases and assessing
the nutritional status of an individual, family and community. [3]

The nutritional assessment is done: [3]

1.) To attain information about the prevalence and geographic distribution of

nutritional disorders within a community or a specified population group.

2.) Can also be used to know/recognize high-risk groups and to assess the role of
different epidemiological (asepsis-sanitation) factors in nutritional deficiency.

3.) Assessment of the nutritional status aids assessing the prevalence of nutritional
disorders, planning corrective measures, and simultaneous evaluating the
effectiveness of the implemented strategies. [3]

Solving for %NS (Nutritional Status)

%NS = AW
X 100
DBW

AW (Actual Weight)
DBW (Desirable Body Weight)

Example: A patient who stands 4’ 11”; AW = 108lbs. (convert lbs. to K)→108/2.2= 49K
Solve for DBW first→DBW= 45K=99lbs

%NS = AW X 100
DBW
= 49 K X 100
45 K
%NS = 108.89 =109% → Normal

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Example: A patient who stands 5’1”; AW = 58K Solve first for DBW=49K

%NS = AW
X 100
DBW

= 58K X 100
49 K
%NS = 118.37=118% → Obese

Reference/Standards used [4]

a.) Weight-for-Height – classification of nutritional status by Mclaren and Read (1972)

Category of NS Range
Overweight 110% of standard weight
Normal 90% - 109% of standard weight
Underweight, Mild 85% - 89% of standard weight
Undernourished, Moderate 76% - 84% of standard weight
Undernourished Severe 75% of standard weight

b.) Weight-for-Age – Philippine classification of undernutrition (FNRI) (based on

Gomez’s classification)

Depending on how far a weight compares with his/her standard weight, a child is
classified as:

Normal, when the child’s weight is between 91% and 110% of his/her ideal weight;
First Degree or Moderately Underweight, when the child’s weight is only 76% -90% of
his/her ideal weight;
Second Degree or Moderately underweight, when the child’s weight is only 61% - 75%
of his/her ideal weight;
Third Degree or Severely undernutrition, when the child’s weight is only 60% or less
of his/her ideal weight
(Source: FNRI, 1984)

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Category of NS Range
Obese
Overweight
Normal 91% - 110% of ideal weight
1st Degree Malnutrition 76% - 90% of ideal weight
2nd Degree Malnutrition 61% - 75% of ideal weight
3rd Degree Malnutrition 60% or less of ideal weight

Example: 6-year old child; AW=22K

Solve first for DBW of children= DBW (K) = (Number of years x 2) + 8
DBW = (6x2) + 8 = 20K

%NS = AW X 100
DBW
= 22 X 100
20
= 110% → Normal

References

1. cancer.gov/publications/dictionaries/cancer-terms/nutrition-status
2. omicsonline.org/nutrition-disorder-and-therapy/nutritional-status-research-articles.php
September, 2020-updated)
3.www.jmedscindmc.com/article.asp?issn=1011-
4564;year=2014;volume=34;issue=5;space=211;epage=213;aulast=Shrivastava
4. Caudal, M.L.C., Basic Nutrition and Diet Therapy, 2nd Edition, C & E Publishing, Inc., Quezon City, 2019

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