Malnutrition is a common disease. What causes malnutrition? How to judge malnutrition? Malnutrition is a common disease in modern society, which reflects our poor health. It is usually mentioned that malnutrition will be combined with sallow and emaciated. In fact, this is a lack of nutrition, just a manifestation of malnutrition, and another is overnutrition, specifically obesity. Malnutrition is mostly caused by improper diet or insufficient diet. When our nutrient intake is insufficient, malabsorption or excessive exhaustion, it will form malnutrition, and when we overeat, it will form overnutrition. No matter what form of malnutrition, it will be harmful to our health. In view of the related problems of malnutrition, please ask Feng Ziyou, deputy chief physician of Yangjiang People's Hospital, to answer them for us.

? 1, what is malnutrition?

Malnutrition is a disease caused by improper diet or other incentives. Malnutrition is generally divided into the following two situations: first, overnutrition, such as children like to eat snacks, fast food, pizza and other high-calorie foods, leading to obesity; Second, insufficient nutrition intake, for example, because tumor cells consume too much nutrition, normal tissues can not get better substances, leading to malnutrition. To improve man-made malnutrition, it is necessary to correct the concept of diet and nutrition and improve one's own physique.

2. How to judge malnutrition?

Malnutrition can be judged by body mass index, which refers to weight divided by the square of height and meters. When the body mass index is greater than a certain value, it can be divided into normal, overweight, obesity, mild, moderate and severe malnutrition. These situations can be judged by yourself according to the information and your own situation.

3. What causes malnutrition?

Malnutrition is caused by many factors. At present, more than 90% of malnutrition seen in clinical nutrition department is mainly caused by diseases. Therefore, if malnutrition occurs, the primary disease must be treated first, because many diseases easily affect people's appetite, leading to a decrease in nutrient intake; In addition, because I know my illness, I feel depressed, my appetite drops, and my nutritional intake decreases. In the past, emaciation gradually appeared, leading to malnutrition.

4. How to judge the overnutrition during pregnancy?

To judge whether pregnant women are overnourished during pregnancy, professional clinical nutritionists will judge whether they are obese or overnourished according to their usual food spectrum and body fat measuring instrument. Drinking bone soup can't supplement calcium because the calcium content in bone soup is very low. It is more appropriate to supplement calcium, drink milk or eat calcium tablets.

Long-term malnutrition will make our body organs gradually fail. If children are malnourished, they will grow slowly and weigh less than their peers. This is called emaciation. At present, with the improvement of living standards, the incidence of malnutrition has declined, but it still exists, and some are even caused by diseases. Therefore, when malnutrition occurs, you must go to the hospital for diagnosis in time.