Sentences with phrase «lack of adequate nutrition»

It's related to pica, where people eat non-food due to a (typically - harmless) nutritional deficiency; vegans often eat lots and lots and lots of food because their body is detecting a lack of adequate nutrition, and the food they eat has the things they need — just not enough of those things.

And digestive issues, including sensitivity to gluten, dairy and other allergens — as well as health problems that can be directly traced to a lack of adequate nutrition — also become increasingly common.

Not exact matches

Further, it is entirely clear that increasing numbers of poor children, lacking adequate nutrition, housing and health care, often with overworked parent (s), are a major reason for any lack of academic achievement — but the Bush approach will do nothing about these.

Lack of immunization, parasite control, adequate nutrition, and hygiene put feral cats at risk of many life - threatening problems.

According to Donald R. Collins DVM author of The Collins Guide to Dog Nutrition, dogs will eat anything they can get their paws on if they are lacking in the nutrition to supply them with adequate energy.

In fact, adequate nutrition is particularly important for any pet being treated with chemotherapy drugs since a lack of nutrition predisposes -LSB-...]

Negative effects on physical development can result from physical trauma (e.g., blows to the head or body or violent shaking) and from neglect (e.g., inadequate nutrition, lack of adequate motor stimulation, or withholding medical treatments).