Malnourishment means poor nutrition. It can be undernutrition or overnutrition. People usually have a misconception that undernutrition i.e. not getting enough nutrients is malnutrition, but overnutrition i.e. excess of nutrients in the body which leads to obesity is also a kind of malnutrition. Hence, malnutrition refers to the condition when the body doesn’t get the right amount of nutrients. Nutritional status is not a body mass index (BMI).
Some signs and symptoms of an obese person to be malnourished are –
How can you best provide education to a 40 year old individual who is obese and a newly diagnosed diabetic patient who has to make solid adjustments to her food intake and portion sizes? What will you suggest?
How can someone be malnourished but overweight at the same time? Explain the rationale behind this.
How can someone be malnourished, but overweight at the same time? Explain the rationale behind your answer.
how can you tell the difference between a homozygous individual and a heterozygous individual for a particular bi-allegic gene when looking at the results of a gel
A child in a home where both parents are obese has the likelihood of being obese as well? why or why not? how do you know as a healthcare professional help the family?
The probability of having diabetes if you are obese is 0.15 and the probability of having diabetes if you are overweight is 0.10. If being obese and overweight are mutually exclusive, what is the probability of having diabetes if you are obese or overweight? Round the answer to two decimal places.
Can a person be overweight or obese and healthy? minimum 250 words
Linkage a) how do you determine the types of gametes expected from a double heterozygous individual when there is linkage and when the genes assort independently. b) How do you identify the parental and the recombinant type gametes from data on the frequency of different types of offspring in a testcross and from information about the genotypes of the parents of the double heterozygote. c) How do you calculate the map distance when given testcross results.
True or False Confidence intervals can for individual means can be used to determine mean differences.
An alarming number of U.S. adults are elther overweight or obese. The distinction between overweight and obese is made on the basis of body mass index (BMID, expressed as weight/height2. An adult is considered overweight if the BMI is 25 or more but less than 30. An obese adult will have a BMI of 30 or greater. According to a January 2012 article in the Journal of the American Medical Association, 331% of the adult population in the United States...