CAUSES AND EFFECTS OF MALNUTRITION IN CHILDREN
CHAPTER ONE INTRODUCTION BACKGROUND TO THE STUDY Malnutrition is a term peculiar to under develop and developing countries. Malnutrition has been defined in different ways for example, Marian Hill (1989) regards malnutrition as the absence of certain essential food elements in ones diet. Billies nurses dictionary (18th edition) defines malnutrition as the condition in which nutrition is defective in quantity. Malnutrition is the condition that occurs when a persons’ body is ...
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