Causes of Malnutrition
Lack of knowledge of nutrition on the part of a home maker, results in nutritional problems in children. Uddoh
(1980) attributed the causes of malnutrition to many extrinsic factors which are as follows:
(1) Insufficient food production as a result of the mass exodus of people from the villages to the cities in search of
better paid jobs.
(2) Many people are illiterates or semi-illiterates and have no knowledge of nutrition.
(3) Poor methods of food storage and transportation to big cities and towns.
(4) Many persons are poor and do not have enough money to buy the right kinds of food.
(5) Many people do not budget their house keeping money wisely. Consequently they spend a large part of the
money on the latest fashionable clothes, but buy the cheapest and poorest quality of foods to feed their
families.