Malnutrition is a major health problem in the world, especially for children. Mario, age 3, lives in a country where the rate of malnutrition is high. In addition to enduring the lack of food, he frequently has diarrhea, which is a major factor. He has an extreme form of malnutrition, protein malnutrition, or kwashiorkor. In Ghana, the word kwashiorkor means "the sickness the older child gets
when the next baby is born."
Correlate the above description of kwashiorkor with the intake of protein.
This disease appears when there is a sudden or recent lack of protein-containing foods. When a mother has a breast-feeding child and delivers another infant that is put to the breast, suddenly the older child's intake of protein is drastically reduced or stopped.
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