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The Malnutrition has been related with deficiency, poor diet and inadequate access to health care, and it remains as universal health issue that contributes to ill-health with 50 % of childhood deaths due to underlying malnutrition. Bio fortification, probiotic foods and food process methods have shown the potential to beat the deficiency disease. A recently developed home primarily based treatment for severe acute deficiency disease is convalescent the lives of many thousands of kids a year. Ready-to-use Therapeutic Food (RUTF) has modified radically the treatment of severe deficiency disease – providing foods that ar safe to use reception and guarantee fast weight gain in severely malnourished youngsters. This review of the literature throws lightweight on the causes of deficiency disease, prevalence, risk, and a few necessary methods like bio fortification, therapeutic diets, prebiotic foods to beat deficiency disease.

Keywords

Malnutrition; Prevalence; Deficiency; Risk; Prevention.

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