Clinical Perspectives of Malnutrition

Malnutrition has been a challenge for many societies of the world. This has been the case for many past generations. Although the developed world has largely overcome it, malnutrition remains a big challenge for many developing Countries. Whereas malnutrition has been known to be problematic to people with severe or chronic diseases (Kristina et al., 2008), malnutrition has been cited as one of the consequences of the worldwide lock-down that many Countries have so far experienced as a result of the Coronavirus pandemic (Andrade, 2020; Mathias Dzobo et al., 2020), especially on children (Lore van Bruaene et al., 2020). This situation might be aggravated by food shortages that might affect people in places with low socioeconomic infrastructure or people living in places destabilized by war or other forms of social conflicts. In such places, malnutrition may inevitably be encountered by professionals in clinical practice. The chapters of this book have therefore been devoted to discussing various aspects of malnutrition.