as in starvation
the unhealthy condition that results from not eating enough food or not eating enough healthy food; poor nutrition
a program to help poor children suffering from malnutrition
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Recent Examples of malnutrition
Widespread malnutrition after a year of dwindling food supplies is another factor making this winter deadly.
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Ghada Abdulfattah, The Christian Science Monitor, 7 Jan. 2025
The researchers also observed signs on the bones that the child was suffering from a disease around the time of death—possibly scurvy—or malnutrition.
—Newsweek, 3 Jan. 2025
Patients had acute respiratory infections — think COVID, flu or rhinoviruses — complicated by malaria as well as widespread malnutrition.
—Gabrielle Emanuel, NPR, 31 Dec. 2024
Those laughing, loving Brooklyn Nolans struggle with poverty and malnutrition.
—Perri Klass, The New Yorker, 30 Dec. 2024
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Ghada Abdulfattah, The Christian Science Monitor, 7 Jan. 2025
The researchers also observed signs on the bones that the child was suffering from a disease around the time of death—possibly scurvy—or malnutrition.
—Newsweek, 3 Jan. 2025
Patients had acute respiratory infections — think COVID, flu or rhinoviruses — complicated by malaria as well as widespread malnutrition.
—Gabrielle Emanuel, NPR, 31 Dec. 2024
Those laughing, loving Brooklyn Nolans struggle with poverty and malnutrition.
—Perri Klass, The New Yorker, 30 Dec. 2024
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“Malnutrition.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/malnutrition. Accessed 30 Jan. 2025.
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