Children Malnutrition Malnutrition is a condition that results from intake of excess unbalanced diet with several nutrients lacking or the just poor eating habits it can bring about certain ailments such as marasmus caused by general lack of food, kwashiorkor which is a lack of proteins, goiter which is caused by the lack of iodine, rickets which is a vitamin D deficiency, scurvy by lack of vitamin C and beriberi which is a lack of vitamin B. It is estimated that about 62 million persons die yearly from malnutrition and majority of this are in sub-Saharan Africa and Asia due to high dependency on rainfall to grow food. Problems of storage are also a contributing factor as when there is good harvest, lots of the food is lost to pests and fungi; leading to an acceleration to high poverty levels (Torpy Et al. 2010). I