Listening lecture: World nutrition situation, conceptual framework of malnutrition, definitions, the Millennium Development Goals

13th of March at 14pm to 16pm

Today I attend to first lecture from course Nutritional problems in low income countries. I take this course just to study English and listen it. It is not necessary for me but it seemed interesting.
Professor Marja Mutanen spoked about nutritional problems most in India and Africa. There was also background article: Maternal and child undernutrition: global and regional exposures and health consequences (Lancet 2008; 371: 243-60), witch I read.
I think main point where that it is important to get all vitamins and minerals, with protein, so that human can develop normally. It doesn´t help enough if we send just some of them, because body needs all of them. Undernutrition has short-term consequences; like mortality and disability but also long-term consequences like intellectual ability, economic productivity, reproductive performance and increased risk to have metabolic or cardiovascular disease.

New words for me:
reproductive =  lisääntymis-
inadequate = riittämätön
poverty = köyhyys
dwelling = asunto
assets = omaisuus
remittances = rahalähetykset

Time: 2 hours
Time in total: 37 hours