Causes of Malnutrition: 

• Low food intake

• Mental health conditions
• Digestive disorders and stomach conditions
• Extreme alcohol intake
• Physical and social factors
• Medicine intake

1. Regularly eat healthy foods and have a balanced diet. 

 In order to combat malnutrition here in the Philippines, proper food intake should
be exercised by each person. Eating junk foods and not nutritious one’s should
be eliminated. Aside from this, maintaining a healthy lifestyle by exposing oneself
to a balanced diet is also one of the major solutions to solve the low food intake.

2. Mental health condition

 Mental health conditions affect the appetite of a person. In order to seek this
problem, we should have adequate intake of energy and nutrients just like folic
acid, thiamine, and cobalamin in order to address this effect. Another way around
is to tell your problem and let others help you solve it.

3. Digestive disorder and stomach conditions

 Digestive disorders and stomach conditions which causes the body not to absorb
nutrients efficiently. The main solution to this problem is to eat healthy foods and
always keep track on everything we eat. Proper care for our digestive system is
still the best solution, if we failed to uphold this. This will result to loss of appetite
which may cause in adequate food intake leading to poor health and eventually
to malnutrition.

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