Malnutrition occurs when the body receives an inadequate or excessive amount of nutrients, with overnutrition resulting from excessive calorie intake. This can lead to serious health conditions, including vitamin and iron poisoning. Habits such as overeating and taking excessive supplements can increase the risk of malnutrition.
Malnutrition is an unfavorable health condition in which at least one nutrient is supplied in an amount that exceeds the body’s requirements for normal metabolism, growth, and development. The term “overnutrition” is also used to indicate the result of excessive calorie intake over a period of time, an amount high enough to cause obesity. This means that overeating can and often does lead to malnutrition. Arguably, in simpler terms, overnutrition occurs when a person receives too much nutrition, too many calories, or both. Although the term may not sound like it refers to a health condition that could be serious, it does.
The prefix “bad” means “inadequate,” “poor,” “inept,” and “messy.” Malnutrition is considered a form of malnutrition that can be fatal if severe. When the body receives an excessive amount of nutrients or calories, life functions become inadequate and disordered, and a person’s health becomes poor. A nutrient oversupply can refer to excessive intake of a specific type of nutrient, such as a vitamin or mineral, or excessive intake of a group of nutrients such as the B-complex family of vitamins.
Various lifestyles and habits can easily lead to malnutrition. Eat excessively; worried about taking vitamins, supplements, teas, herbal extracts, and tinctures; and eating excessive amounts of particular foods to increase intake of one or more nutrients is listed among such habits and lifestyles. People who could be at risk of developing overnutrition are those who suffer from hypochondria; those who take nutritional supplements, particularly synthetic ones; and people who don’t realize that an excess supply of a nutrient can be just as harmful to the body as a nutritional deficiency. People who follow fad diets may also be at risk of overnutrition.
Some of the specific conditions that can result from an oversupply of nutrients are vitamin poisoning and iron poisoning. Depending on the situation, both may take place simultaneously. For example, if a person greatly exceeds the recommended dose for a multivitamin and mineral supplement that contains iron, he or she could be at risk of vitamin and iron poisoning. Malnutrition is almost always caused by overeating or taking nutritional supplements. It almost never develops in people who depend on their diet for their nutrient supply and who exercise control when it comes to the amount of food they eat, even if those foods are very nutrient-dense.
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