Abstract

BORDA PEREZ, Mariela. The malnutrition paradox. Salud, Barranquilla [online]. 2007, vol.23, n.2, pp.276-291. ISSN 0120-5552.

Developing countries are influenced by a group of factors that affect the social-economic development y with it generate consequences like the increase in the now denominated nutritional paradox which shows that in low income homes malnutrition exists in children due to the lack of an adequate diet, causing hunger and in adults malnutrition exists in the excess of inadequate diets causing overweight and obesity which are thought of as an abundant diet but seen closely it shows that they are being caused by malnutrition which is an effect of the nutrition imbalance and insecurity in these homes. This article approaches nutrition as a process; it's relation to the social-economic development and the impact of underdevelopment on the dietary needs, causing hunger; a brief look at the historic background , the international and national context will lead us to the concept of dietary security, it's affecting dimensions and factors, especially poverty. The measure of poverty is also approached, how it behaves and how it affects the dietary security and the individual's nutritional state as well, what factors can explain the phenomena of nutritional duality. It is also states that lifestyle changes have favoured negative consequences for health. Finally, it's stated that in order to act over the malnutrition duality, the promotion of healthy lifestyles is required following the frame of healthy public nutrition politics.

Keywords : Malnutrition; obesity; dietary security; nutritional; hunger; poverty.

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