Chapter 2 REVIEW OF RELATED LITERATURE DOCX

Title	Chapter 2 REVIEW OF RELATED LITERATURE
Author	Rolan Antinero
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Chapter 2 REVIEW OF RELATED LITERATURE The following related literature cited in this chapter are several sources of information and ideas that helped enhance the knowledge of the researcher on how other things or phenomena are associated to the concern of this study. Thus, these would supplement and complement to the findings of this study. Conceptual Literature Foreign In Global Nutrition Report 2016 of International Food Policy Research Institute in Washington DC, it states that malnutrition creates a cascade of individual and societal challenges—and opportunities. Malnutrition and poor diets constitute the number-one driver of the global burden of disease. We already know that the annual GDP losses from low weight, poor child growth, and micronutrient deficiencies average 11 percent in Asia and Africa—greater than the loss experienced during the 2008–2010 financial crisis. This report presents new data on the cost of malnutrition to both societies and individuals. In the United States, for example, when one person in a household is obese, the household faces additional annual health care costs equivalent to 8 percent of its annual income. In China, a diagnosis of diabetes results in an annual 16.3 percent loss of income for those with the disease. All of these figures mean that the burden of malnutrition falls heavily on all of us, whether directly suffering or not. But these costs also represent large opportunities for human and economy...