Copyrighted Image? DMCA | Malnutrition appears to be increasing among the elderly here and throughout the country, health experts say. And while malnutrition is brought on by several causes, poverty remains a primary reason.
"Poverty is huge in malnutrition," said Samantha Johnson, a nutritionist with the Food Trust, a Philadelphia-based nonprofit working to improve food access. "The elderly often don't have the money to eat the food they need." Malnutrition occurs when a person doesn't eat a proper amount of calories, protein, or minerals, scientists say. An imbalance is created, caused by eating too little food, or too much of the wrong kinds of food - often cheap food high in fat and salt purchased by poor people with little choice in diet, scientists say. |
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