Nutrition Assignment

Discuss briefly what is termed nutrition cress life span,

a. Pregnancy and lactation

b. Infancy childhood and adolescent
c. Lateen adulthood

1. Around the world, (in this brief the term malnutrition will refer to conduction
of nutritional deficiency), poor nutrition throughout life cycle. Once the growth
period stops, energy needs and the need for certain nutrients declines. The
reason behind a person’s food choice also varies across the life span because
social, psychological, economic and leisure roles change during that time
period.

2. Pregnancy and lactation: is another term used to indicted the progress of

labor, and it refers to the position of the body’s ‘presenting part’ in relation to
the ischial.

3. For the first year after birth, a baby is called an infant. Each childhood begins
at age two when a child may be referred to as a toddler. Childhood continues
until adolescence, which generally coincides with the ten years. Adolescence is
the period of transition into adulthood.

4. The period of later adulthood, define here as age 60 through 75 years, is

characterized by physical psychological, and social changes, including both. We
are considered to be in the late adulthood from the time we reach our mid-
sixties until death.