Environmental factors and the affects it has on brain growth and development What affects a child’s brain growth and development? This is a question that teachers, doctors, and parents often ask themselves. The answer is there are many things that affect a child’s brain growth and development. In fact, everything that a child experiences can play an important role. The factor that I want to focus on is the environment. How does the environment affect a child’s brain growth and development? There
An enormous amount of crucial issues are holding the world back from achieving global development, of which high levels of malnutrition… When a person does not get the proper amount of nutrients, whether more or less than required, malnutrition becomes a concern. In fact, it is the world 's greatest single contributor to disease. Malnutrition can be related to nearly all of the Millennium Development Goals, thus reducing the chances to achieve any of them. The Sub-Saharan part of Africa has one of
be factors affecting a child’s physical activity progress. In this research I will be discussing the importance of parental support in terms of teens PA (physical activity) and how can transparent factors like community , different sexes , peer pressure , and school policies affect teens psychologically, mentally, and academically.
physical growth and motor development; lower intellectual quotient (IQ), greater behavioral problems and deficient social skills; susceptibility to contracting diseases (WHO, 2011). Under nutrition remains a devastating problem in many developing countries affecting over 815 million people causing more than one-half of child death (UNICEF 'S, 2009). The levels of mortality are also worsened particularly by poverty, inadequate maternal education, lack of potable water and sanitation, high fertility and inadequate
in India to ensure the optimum nutritional status of its beneficiaries is rarely studied. The study assessed the nutritional status of 6-10 year old school children who were the beneficiaries of Mid-Day Meal (MDM) Program-me and the child – related factors affecting their nutritional status. The study showed a higher prevalence of undernutrition among school-age children who were the beneficiaries of Mid-Day Meal (MDM) Program-me, and this indicates the need for continuous nutritional interventions
Poor nutrition is the major contributor to the leading causes of chronic disease and death in the world. Chronic conditions accounted for 60 % deaths in the world, in 2001. Diabetes and obesity affect a large amount of the populace and it has started appearing earlier in life because of the new lifestyle behaviours. Chronic diseases are long period diseases and they generally progress very slowly; they are non-communicable conditions (which means they cannot be from one person to another). There
estimated that 37-80 per cent of all pre-school children in the developing countries suffer from proteincalorie malnutrition as assessed by the manifestation of syndromes, nutritional indexes, and weight deviations(Bengoa 1974). In addition, Under-nutrition or malnutrition is a general term for the medical condition caused by an inappropriate or insufficient diet. "Malnutrition is the lack of sufficient nutrients sustaining healthy body functions and associates with extreme poverty in economically developing
There have been major shifts in the dietary patterns throught the world. Some developing and transition economies also experience nutritional transition as a result of differences in socio-demographic factors and other consumer characteristics. Changes in agriculture and food systems also explain part of the recent rapid shift in societal dietary practices in developing countries. Over the past few decades, there have been changes in agricultural practice with increased capacity to provide food for
cardio-vascular diseases, menstrual disorders, infertility, impotence, some types of cancers are some of the diseases that are directly linked to obesity. There are a lot of factors that influence childhood obesity. Except of physical activity and nutrition described above, exist other factors as: socio-economic and demographic
Malaysia such as nuclear family, single parent family and extended family. According to Schlee, Mullis, & Shriner (2008), the risk factors such as living in a single-parent family or low parent education levels, especially when combined with poverty, can markedly increase children’s chances of adverse outcomes. Therefore, the children from single parent family are affecting the children the most in learning process and development. According to the Sauvola (2001), the concept of the single-parent family