The Global Problem of Malnutrition

The field of biochemistry and enzymology that concerns intermediary metabolism has a relationship to the processes of the living cell and organisms that precedes the evolution of molecular biology and genomics. However, nutrition as a science and as an essential for healthcare is challenged in our current existence. The global importance of nutrition, food sources and water supplies has not retreated despite extensive knowledge about nutrition, improvements in agriculture, and the evolution of food science. The insurmountable problem is the long global history of centuries of European colonialism and more recent post WWII hegemony, repeated wars, the decay of states, rural and/or urban poverty, massive weather changes, and mass migrations. These have much to do about environment and of economic disparities that make continuation of the current situation unsustainable as it exists. The solutions are both economic and political.