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Nutrition
Physically and mentally, health manpower is indispensable for the overall development of a country, as healthy children are pillars of the country. However, Nepal Medicator Surveillance 1997 reveals that about 53 percent of the children of the country are at present under various stages of malnutrition. Population growth, income-generating employment, lack of nutritious food, poverty, lack of health and basic facility, lack of education and public awareness, etc. have resulted in deteriorating nutrition condition and people hence are suffering from various types of malnutrition. Lack of protein-based food is one of the main problems of malnutrition. In addition, Nepalese children are affected by micro-nutritional elements like vitamin-A and iodine. Such types of malnutrition have resulted in loss of age-specific weight, and height, blindness, anaemia, thyroid, dumb, mentally related and among the children.Anaemia among women is the outcome of malnutrition. A majority of Nepalese women, especially pregnant and obstetrics are affected by it. In many remote places, people are even suffered from thyroid caused by the lack of iodine. This has badly affected their mental health, and the body has been found abnormal.