Outline for Question 1

Thesis: The relationship between the past and present nutritional status and growth and
development are the nutritional values we apply to them.
A. The nutritional indicators
B. Stunting
a. What stunting is
b. How it affects the population
c. Long-term or short-term
C. Wasting
a. What is wasting
b. What are its effects on the population
D. Malnutrition and Infection
a. Malnutrition
b. Infections
c. comparison
E. Anthropometry
a. What is anthropometry
b. How does it affect the plasticity
F. Micronutrient malnutrition
a. What is it
b. How it affects
G. Child Growth and Development
a. How does malnutrition affect this
b. What are some symptoms
H. Adult productivity
a. How does malnutrition affect adults
b. How adults help malnutrition to their offspring
I. Conclusion
a. The nutritional relationship between the past and present
b. The growth and development

Answer to Question 1.
The relationship between the past and the present nutritional status and the
growth and development, from the values and that we apply to them. The anthropologist
have conducted varies of research projects that have based their studies to focus on the
growth and development of children in the United States and in third world countries.
There are different ways to measure malnutrition in a childs diet. Some of those
nutritional indicators are stunting. Stunting is a malnutrition that is permanent in a child.
We also have wasting. Wasting is the effect of current malnutrition. Then we have the
malnutrition with the infection and the comparison of them both. We have
anthropometry which is how one measures malnutrition.
One of the conditions that affects a child due to malnutrition is stunting. Stunting
is one of the symptoms of malnutrition. Stunting is when the child is so malnourished
that the body does not fully grow to their total height capacity. (Bogin, 2012) Stunting is
a condition that is not hidden based on their current nutrition. Stunting occurs during the
early development of a child which is between the two stages of development he child
and the adolescent. The causes of stunting are long term symptoms. Stunting is one of
the best indications of early malnutrition.
A second condition of malnutrition is wasting. Wasting is a condition that
anthropologist use to measure the current status of a childs nutritional intake. Wasting
is when an individual is underweight for their height. This measurement is better to
measure because it controls the variation in height (Bogin, 2012). This is considered
one of the best indicators of present malnutrition in someones nutritional diet. Wasting
is what anthropologist use to measure someones current diet breath.
There are parents out there that confuse the difference between malnutrition and
infection. Malnutrition is when someone is being nourished under the WTOs
expectation of the current ratio of proper nourishment (Panter-Brick, etc. all. 2010).
While infection is the symptoms of disease of a child being undernourished or because
they went from being nourished to undernourished. That is the difference. Like in
Nigeria where the mothers refused to feed a child proper nourishment because of them
being sick or infected. While this was happening the mothers failed to realize that the
under nourishment was what was causing the child to be sick in the first place and thus
needs to be nourished with the proper nourishments.
One of the ways, as I previously stated, to measure the malnutrition of a child is
anthropometry. Anthropometry is the collection of body measurements. These
measurements have different classifications and interpretations. One is the height for
age. Height for age measures if a child is stunting or not. Then we have the weight for
age. Another one is the weight for height which is called wasting. Then we have the
body mass index. The BMI is used to estimate the fatness.
We also have micronutrient malnutrition. .this is when a child does not have the
proper nutrition on a daily bases. The micro nutrition does not mean that the child is
malnourished but that they suffer micro nutrition malnutrition. That means that they do
not eat or consume the proper amount of food that will help their bodies become
healthy.
A childs growth and development are what anthropologist measure in order to
conduct a proper development into adulthood. The childrens growth rely on their
nutritional intake to find out their development. Their development is a direct reflection
on their nutritional.
Adult productivity is the end product of a childs development. An adult will
forever remain short if they occur stunting. While if they happen to be wasting then they
can always overcome it. An adult is also responsible for their children and to ensure
they continue to be well feed and well nourished.
All these three rely on the malnourishment of a child. Depending on how the child
is being nourished then they become products of adults. The growth and development
is what leads to their adults lives.
That is why the past and present are so correlated. As the study of the Mayans
and the Mayans in Guatemala. The studies indicated that the child who was
malnourished had short stature while their children grew up to 5.6 cm taller because
they lived on a richer nourishment. How the growth and development will continue to
determine who well a child is.


References
Bogin, Barry. 2012. Maya in Disneyland: Child Growth as a Marker of Nutritional,
Economic and Political Ecology Nutritional Anthropology: Bicultural Perspectives on
Food and Nutrition. Oxford University Press: New York
Casiday, Hampshire, Panter-Brick and Kilpatrick, 2010. Child Malnutrition and
Responses to Famine in the Nigerien Sahel, Nutritional Anthropology: Bicultural
Perspectives on Food and Nutrition. Oxford University Press: New York