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• Inadequacy of food
• Gastroenteritis &
other severe
infections
In developed countries:
• Malabsorption due to
intestinal disease
Hair-
Becomes fine and brittle
abnormal reddish
pigmentation,
alternating light and dark
bands (flag sign).
Skin-
Shows abnormal
pigmentation
increased desquamation
Eating Disorders
They result from psychiatric disorders and cause nutritional
disturbances.
These disorders occur primarily in previously healthy young women
who have developed an obsession with thinness.
Anorexia nervosa
self-induced starvation, resulting in marked weight loss.
Patients with anorexia nervosa show abnormal hypothalamic
function that is an adaptive mechanism to chronic starvation.
FSH & LH levels are decreased leading to failure of ovulation and
amenorrhea.
Bulimia
a condition in which patient binges on food and then induces
vomiting.
Patients with bulimia have
electrolyte imbalance
mucosal tears of the esophagus with bleeding,
aspiration pneumonitis and
http://www.ag.uiuc.edu/~food-lab/resources/lectures/eatin
Obesity
Ideal weight are established on
the basis of height, sex, body
frame, obesity is usually defined
as a body weight 20% greater
than the ideal weight.
An imbalance in the calorie intake () & its breakdown ()
tilting the balance towards storage of excess calories as fat
within adipocytes in the
subcutaneous adipose tissue,
omentum, mesentery,
perinephric tissue and
epicardial adipose tissue.
How does one measure fat accumulation?
There are several highly technical ways to approximate
the measurement, but for practical considerations, the
following ones are commonly used:
breathing disorders on
exertion,
creases, and
a tendency to lower-leg
and poorly.