IMPORTANCE OF THE DIETARY HABITS IN RELATION TO PREVENTION OF MALNUTRITION

Child malnutrition is a major public health concern worldwide, leading to higher morbidity and mortality. It is mostly preventable through public health and economic development. Malnutrition refers to the situation where there is an unbalanced diet in which some nutrients are in excess, lacking or wrong proportion. Simply put, we can categories it to be under-nutrition and over-nutrition. Nutrition effects on children’s physical, cognitive and behavioral development. Television and computer game exposure affect children’s sleep and deteriorate verbal and cognitive performance which support the hypothesis of the negative influence of media on consumption of children sleep, learning and memory. Most of the childhood obesity prevention efforts have focused on school age children and have had limited success. In the present study importance of dietary habits in children is discussed.