Malnutrition

  • A report found obesity and malnutrition coexisting.
  • Obese, overfed, and undernourished children with cognitive disorders were found to have scurvy and severe vitamin D deficiency or rickets.
  • These deficiencies damaged their brains. You never think of overweight people as malnourished, but they can be.
  • A USDA survey showed that:
    • 37 percent of Americans don’t get enough vitamin C, 
    • 70 percent not enough vitamin E, 
    • Almost 75 percent not enough zinc,
    • 40 percent not enough iron.
  • We can say that 100 percent of us don’t have enough of the basic nutrients to create optimal health or give ourselves a metabolic tune-up.
  • About one out of six seniors is technically malnourished and many more have difficulty eating.
  • It may seem somewhat obvious that malnutrition can:
    • Weaken the immune system
    • Lower the bone marrow’s production of red blood cells
    • Increase the risk of developing pressure ulcers (bedsores)
    • Increase the risk that wounds will not heal properly
    • Increased the risk of death.