What is nutritional deficiency?
Malnutrition is a condition in which the human diet does not have enough nutritional value, necessary and useful products for health.
The causes are:
- Arbitrarily (without a specialist) selected diets;
- Financial problems;
- It is difficult for the body to take food;
- History of various physical and mental diseases.
People who are overweight are also diagnosed with nutritional deficiency.
When a person eats little, adheres to a limited diet or is physically unable to absorb food with nutritional value due to health conditions, he is at risk of developing a number of pathologies. This diagnosis is life-threatening in some clinical cases.
During nutritional deficiency, there is a deficiency of vitamins, minerals and other useful substances in the body. Keep in mind, you may be eating enough, but unhealthy or one type of food, therefore, the body faces a nutritional deficiency.
Nutritional deficiency may cause:
- Short-term or long-term health problems;
- It is difficult for a weakened body to defeat diseases or heal wounds in time;
- High risk of infections.
Symptoms of malnutrition are:
- Weight loss;
- Ingratitude;
- Fatigue;
- Irritation;
- Decrease in ability to concentrate;
- The person is constantly cold;
- Depression;
- Loss of muscle and tissue mass;
- The body loses essential fat;
- Frequent morbidity;
- The recovery process is delayed.
Source:
https://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/179316#summary
