Health and nutrition are closely linked in a malnutrition-infection cycle in which diseases contribute to malnutrition, and malnutrition makes an individual more susceptible to disease. Malnutrition is the result of inadequate dietary intake, disease or both. Disease contributes through loss of appetite, malabsorption of nutrients, loss of nutrients through diarrhoea or vomiting. If the body's metabolism is altered the greater the risk is of malnutrition.
âThey studied giant redwoods, the tallest trees on earth in Humboldt County California to reach these conclusions. They hypothesized and verified experimentally that as trees reached the height of 425 they could pump less and less water and nutrients up to new growth at that level. No current tree in the world has reached this height.
The tallest one, named Centurion , is now around 100 m (328 ft) tall and is the tallest living hardwood tree on earth. This eucalypt tree was only discovered in October 2008 by using a laser mounted on a plane, that was measuring the terrain height, forest height and forest biomass [5] .ote that although the tallest living tree in the world is a coast redwood, the biggest living tree on the planet is a specimen of a related species, the giant sequoia. The largest giant sequoia is named . General Sherman .