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Malnutrition

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Malnutrition
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	edHelper's suggested reading level:	grades 4 to 6
	Flesch-Kincaid grade level:	8.25

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	challenging words:		suffering, absorption, anemia, celiac, cystic, fibrosis, folic, gluten, intolerant, iodine, lactose, low-birth, malnourishment, poverty-stricken, prognosis, thyroid
	content words:		Nutritional Rickets, Third World, United States

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Malnutrition By Jennifer Kenny

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¹     Caption: This child is suffering from malnutrition and has manifested symptoms of the disease Nutritional Rickets. Note the bowed legs and enlarged right wrist. Nutritional Rickets is a condition in which children's bones are too soft, and do not develop properly due to a deficiency of vitamin D.
 
²     Augustine lived in a Third World country. He rarely had enough to eat. The drought in his nation's land made regular meals vanish. Augustine suffered from malnutrition.
 
³     Teresa was lactose intolerant. She avoided milk and dairy products because they made her feel so ill. She wasn't taking enough calcium into her body. As a result, she suffered from malnutrition.
 
⁴     Philip was a young accountant. He ate plenty of junk food, but not much that was good for his body. As a result, Philip was suffering from malnutrition.
 
⁵     How can three such different people suffer from malnutrition? Malnutrition is a health condition in which the individual is not getting adequate nutrients. The condition can occur because the person's diet is lacking a particular vitamin or because the person is not getting enough food. Malnutrition can be caused by a lack of food, an unbalanced diet, trouble with digestion or absorption of food, or another health condition.

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