adequate nutrition
collocation in Englishmeaningsofadequateandnutrition
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adequate
adjective
uk/ˈæd.ə.kwət/us/ˈæd.ə.kwət/
enough or satisfactory for a ...
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nutrition
noun[U]
uk/njuːˈtrɪʃ.ən/us/nuːˈtrɪʃ.ən/
the substances that you take into your body as food and the way that they influence ...
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(Definition ofadequateandnutritionfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
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At the most basic level, there are needs foradequatenutrition, hygiene, and medical care.
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The facility where she was receiving care determined that insertion of a nasogastric tube was necessary to provide her withadequatenutritionand hydration.
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There may also be the challenge of ensuringadequatenutritionif the patient is drowsy.
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Even a child with a genetic basis for becoming quite tall will remain short in the absence ofadequatenutrition.
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It may be that mothers from the most wealthy households were more likely to have access toadequatenutrition and health care services during the time of pregnancy or delivery.
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Household economic status determines the family's access to safe drinking water, good sanitation,adequatenutritionand health care.
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The new policy should provideadequatenutritionstandards, and this may, in fact, mean a basic rise in the rate of wages.
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We approach this through the provision of basic health services to the community, including mother and child health services, immunisation andadequatenutrition.
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Ensuring patients have access toadequatenutritionis a key component of effective health care.
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There has been substantial recent publicity about the difficulties of gettingadequatenutritionfor children in poor families.
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It is going to be difficult for these mothers to provideadequatenutritionfor the children.
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Adequatenutritionis essential not merely for the maintenance of their physical efficiency but also to promote their resistance to disease.
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We hope that something very drastic will be done to provide our people with food, because they cannot produce coal withoutadequatenutrition.
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A particular case shows thatadequatenutritionmay sometimes succeed in curing a severe case of impaired physique, even when hospital treatment has failed.
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Adequatenutritionis the primary basis of good health.
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It raises the dilemma that if people are encouraged to produce more food and acquire a taste for better food—that is, foradequatenutrition—they will destroy the ecology.
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Therefore, from the point of view of protection we should be most careful not only to provide medical treatment, but to see that they getadequatenutrition.
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Health in later life suffers becauseadequatenutritionis not maintained.
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It is perhaps as a result of that that cases have arisen of elderly people in hospital, particularly those with mental illness, not receivingadequatenutrition.
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He lost 26 pounds during the event and reported feeling constantly hungry and his mind fuzzy due to a lack ofadequatenutritionand sleep.
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