What Is Nutrition And How Is This Important For Children's Health?

Now day's children's health in developing nations has demonstrated conclusively the connection between proper nutrition and good health. Here we are discussing infectious diseases-illness caused by exposure to bacteria and viruses-and not the diseases typically associated with dietary deficiency, such as rickets of kwashiorkor. Malnutrition is a scourge that perennially stalks may parts of the world.

What is best strategy to ensure that young children receive the nutrients vital to early grown and healthy development, the answer is breast feeding. The best food a child can have during the first year of life comes from mother, and this should be continued as long as two years. During the second year grains and other more typical foods may be given to the child.

According to doctors, breast feeding is not only the best nutrition but it also gives the baby antibodies against some of the diseases that are so devastating. Those who do not breast feed are likely become pregnant sooner and more frequently, because breast feeding provides 98 percent protection from pregnancy during the six months following birth, provided the mother is fully breast feeding and has not experienced vaginal. As children get older, their nutritional needs become more complex. Vitamin A is also necessary for children's health. Also fish meal and grains are complete food sources for children.

There are two main health problems, which are related to nutrition i.e. under nutrition, and the second one is mal nutrition. These are age-old problems, which at least, one eighth of the humanity is facing. During under nutrition a person's diet is deficient in the required calories. Children are especially affected by availability of less than normally required diet and suffer from a disease called marasmus. In these disease human beings, especially children are reduced to a skeleton as the body becomes completely depleted. Some of the countries for example Ethiopia are famine stricken. Although international community does try its best to rescue the famine-inflicted areas, yet it is impossible for them to meet their complete nutritional requirements on such a large scale. The world population is on a continuous rapid rise, it has been estimated that by 2025, the world population will rise to ten billion, whereas water and soil resources are being continually depleted by increasing use by the continually growing population. The experts therefore, predict increasing human population if not checked will soon eat up all of the food resources of the world, which may also be the reason of destruction of human race.