We see how inadequate nutrients in early life can affect you later in life, for instance, in osteoporosis, which occurs mainly in women, although men are affected too. You cannot say you want to prevent osteoporosis when you are sixty or seventy years old. That is too late. You have to start now. We also discuss some of the nutritional implications of the abundance of food, especially in this country.
Obesity is also a kind of malnutrition.
One of the issues I normally raise is weight and weight control. We discuss the issue in terms of the pressure that is put on them by this society, where you see people dieting in order to fit a specific image. In addition, we look at the nutritional disorders that come from low esteem, such as anorexia and bulimia. Studies indicate that more than 60 percent of college students have some kind of eating disorder, that most of them are girls, and that it continues over a period. We then get to the issue of why it is that in the midst of the plenty, there are still some people who do not have enough to eat.