Good Nutrition: Your Right To Healthy Living (part one)

Good food is important for anyone desiring to live healthily, more so regularly eating. It is a means of well growth and living an active life. For little children to grow well in proportion of their age, balanced ration is best. For adults, having enough strength to work hard and stay healthy throughout life.

Inability to eat the right food or well enough food the body need for normal functioning of various systems can cause weakness of the body some common sicknesses and diseases. There are some of these illnesses that are not directly caused by inadequate feeding but will help to aggravate them.

The inability to eat the right food or well enough food quantity is being poorly nourished or malnutrition.

Generally, malnutrition causes the following sicknesses and diseases

*Weakness and tiredness – imbalance in the body energy level
*Loss of appetite
*Anaemia
*Sores in the corners of the mouth
*Painful or sore tongues
*Burning or numbness of the feet

Some other health related problems may occur due to other reasons, but malnutrition can make them worse.

These include:

*diarrhea
*frequent body infections
*headaches
*gum bleeding
*nose bleeding
*stomach discomfort
*dryness and cracking of the skin
*palpitation
*nervousness
*cirrhosis
*mental disorder

Particularly in children, the following illnesses can be prevented through good nutrition.

*growth retardation
*slowness in walking, talking and thinking
*big belly, thin arm and legs
*common illnesses that last longer than expected
*loss of energy
*child feeling sad, no play and crying often
*swelling of feet, face, limbs with sores
*thinning and loss of hair
*poor vision, dryness of eyes, blindness, etc.

Prevention is always cheaper than cure.