Malnutrition

• The World Health Organization defines malnutrition as "the cellular imbalance between supply of nutrients and energy and the body's demand for them to ensure growth, maintainance and specific functions."

• Malnutrition comprises both

-Under nutrition

-Over nutrition

*Under nutrition is depletion of energy

*Over nutrition is the pathological state resulting from the consumption of excessive quantity of food over an extended period of time.