NUTR100 Chapter Notes - Chapter 18: Unemployment Benefits, Goitre, Neural Tube Defect
30 Sep 2016
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Chapter 18 - world hunger and malnutrition and food security in. Two faces of malnutrition ! of the approx. Health consequences of nutritional transitions ! low birth weight rate drops ! life expectancy goes up ! Indicators of poverty and malnutrition ! infant mortality - deaths per 1,000 live births! life expectancy - years! illiteracy rate - percent of population! access to medical care - people per physician ! Class, gender differences. can be household - who controls the income, who"s more educated! May depend on age. light and therefore inexpensive. weather ! limited environmental resources - climate, changes in land use, in sh, ! Geography - ex/ in the north - food is own to you. charged by the tonne. things like chips are. Key role in regulating metabolic rate, swelling of thyroid. considered to be one of the single most preventable causes of brain damage because of the role it plays in brain development !
