Food is life! Eat food as medicine otherwise you will eat medicine as food.

lack of proper nutrition or not eating adequate balance diet is malnutrition.

Balance diet means a food that contain all the necessary nutrients needed in the food!

  The most common type of malnutrition that affect our children is kwashiorkor and Marasmus

kwashiorkor happens when a child lack protein

marasmus happens when a child lack carbohydrates.

we have PEM as well( protein energy malnutrition): it happens when a child lack both the proteins and carbohydrates that’s all the macronutrients.

macronutrients are required in a large amount in the body

they are the seven classes of food

carbohydrates such as cassava,rice,garri,cereals and legumes

proteins such as meat,fish,beans,egg

fat such as vegetable oil,nuts,cheese,

minerals such as bone and cartilage 

fibre: Apple, beans, roughages 

vitamins we have different types of vitamins mentioned below

we have fat soluble vitamins(ADEK) and water soluble vitamins (B,C,) 

Lack of vitamins is called Avitaminiosis and it results in many syndromes

Lack of vitamin A causes Night blindness 

Lack of vitamin B causes beri-beri

Lack of vitamin C causes scurvy

Lack of vitamin D causes oesteomalacia in adult and ricket in children

Lack of Vitamin E it deficiency is minute because it’s present in our diet, it brings failure in rat’s pregnancy 

Vitamin K Cause hemorrhage (loss of blood) it also causes morbidity and mortality in infant.

Dear reader! health is wealth! if you don’t eat food as medicine you will eat medicine as food...choose wisely