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  2. Protein–energy malnutrition - Wikipedia

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    Protein–energy undernutrition (PEU), once called protein–energy malnutrition (PEM), is a form of malnutrition that is defined as a range of conditions arising from coincident lack of dietary protein and/or energy in varying proportions. The condition has mild, moderate, and severe degrees.

  3. Undernutrition in children - Wikipedia

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    Protein-Energy Malnutrition (PEM) is another form of malnutrition that affects children. PEM can appear as conditions called marasmus, kwashiorkor, and an intermediate state of marasmus-kwashiorkor. Although malnutrition can have severe and lasting health effects on women and children, they are still susceptible to other water-related dangers.

  4. Alejandro Velasco Astete International Airport - Wikipedia

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    Alejandro Velasco Astete International Airport (IATA: CUZ, ICAO: SPZO) is an international airport located in the city of Cusco, in southeastern Peru. Cusco, a principal tourist attraction in Latin America, receives various domestic flights as well as some international flights. The runway is completely paved.

  5. Promoting Healthy Choices: Information vs. Convenience - HuffPost

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    choices. The primary example of such information-based legislation is the Nutrition Labeling and Education Act (NLEA), which was implemented in 1994 (United States Food and Drug Administration) and required that consumers have access to consistent nutritional information for packaged foods.

  6. Kwashiorkor - Wikipedia

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    To prevent this from happening, parents can be educated on proper nutrition and the importance of breastfeeding infants to ensure they receive all the nutrients they need. [ 33 ] A diet rich in carbohydrates, fats that provide 10% of the total caloric needs, and proteins that provide 15% of the caloric needs can prevent kwashiorkor.

  7. Air travel - Wikipedia

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    U.S. domestic flights usually have two classes: economy class and a domestic first class partitioned into cabins. International flights may have up to four classes: economy class; premium economy; business class or club class; and first class. Most air travel starts and ends at a commercial airport.

  8. Post-exertional malaise - Wikipedia

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    Post-exertional malaise (PEM), sometimes referred to as post-exertional symptom exacerbation (PESE) [1] or post-exertional neuroimmune exhaustion (PENE), [2] is a worsening of symptoms that occurs after minimal exertion.

  9. Phosphatidylethanolamine N-methyltransferase - Wikipedia

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    The exact mechanism by which PEMT catalyzes the sequential methylation of PE by three molecules of SAM to form PC remains unknown. Kinetic analyses as well as amino acid and gene sequencing have shed some light on how the enzyme works.