Malnutrition

Malnutrition is the state produced by the result of deficiency or excess supply of any essential nutrients of food.It includes both under nutrition and over nutrition.Therefore,the faces of malnutrition can be classified into the following four types:
1)Under nutrition causes if an individual is not given the required calories.
2)malnutrition causes if an individual is not supplied with enough nutrients though enough food is available.
3)Specific deficiency of nutrients mostly occurs in terms of vitamins and minerals.
4)Over nutrition causes if the supply of food is higher as per the individual's requirement.
However,the general people consider malnutrition as the synonym of under nutrition.Therefore it is tried here to describe some deficiency diseases,which are prevalent in some of the list developed countries.