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Determinants Of Wasting And Obesity Among School Aged Children Using Anthropometric Measurement
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Srivastava (2012) also noted that wasting in children is a symptom of
acute under nutrition, usually a consequence of insufficient food intake
of a high incidence of infectious diseases, especially diarrhea and
other diseases. Wasting in turn impairs the functioning of the immune
system and can lead to increased severity and elongated susceptibility
to infectious diseases and also increased risk for death.(Bose 2007).
Statement of the Problem
Obesity
and wasting is a serious challenge facing the whole world at large and
Nigeria is not left out, therefore it becomes important on how to avoid
obesity and wasting in our contemporary society. UNICEF report 2013,
stated that 42 million children under the age of five were either
overweight or obese. In addition, 44%of them were diabetic, while23% of
them were heart disease and 41% of these disease were attributed to
overweight and obesity. Wasting which is one of the major problem of
school age children, occur maybe due to lack of adequate nutritional
meal, drinking of unsafe water and poor environment.
Wasting and
obesity in children causes direct structural damage to the brain and
impair the immune system, making children more vulnerable to almost all
infectious diseases and less interested in the environment they live in.
The combination of infectious diseases and poor environmental
sanitation will likely affects the children’s health and their
nutritional status thus reducing a child’s learning opportunities.
Also,
children who are wasted are more likely to have stunted growth in
adulthood, have poor Educational achievements and economic status, and
give birth to smaller infants. Girls in this category may develop small
pelvic which will result to difficulty during child birth. It is
important to note that well-nourished children brought up in a healthy
and nurturing environment, grow stronger, taller and become adults that
are more productive, maintaining high levels of functionality and
produce healthy offspring in the future.
In a more severe case,
obesity in children is associated with some health challenges, children
who are obese are at greater risk for b0one and joint problems, sleep
apnea and some of the health challenges those children may face may be,
being absent in school, while some of the social and psychological
problems they might face include stigmatization, poor self-esteem,
susceptibility to depression, anxiety etc. that is why the researcher
dim it necessary to investigate on wasting and obesity among school aged
children in abakaliki metropolis
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