Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun Inadequate nutrition resulting from lack of food or failure of the body to absorb or assimilate nutrients properly.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Incomplete or imperfect nutrition.
- noun An economic condition in society in which large numbers of individuals are insufficiently fed. It is estimated that in the United States as many as 10, 000, 000 persons, though not technically paupers, are inadequately nourished.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun Inadequate
nutrition , either due to a lack offood , or to the inability of the body to absorb itsnutrients
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Examples
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MALNUTRITION–This can also be called undernutrition or poor nutrition.
The Most Complete Food Counter, 2nd Edition Annette B. Natow Ph.d. 2006
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[chuckles] that with the so-called undernutrition diet -- that is, based on concepts other that those of the diet recommended in the developed world -- human life expectancy is considerably increased.
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Access to sanitation also significantly reduces other leading causes of child deaths, such as undernutrition and pneumonia.
Jan Eliasson: The Neglected Development Goal Jan Eliasson 2010
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She was also awarded an MSc degree in Medical Anthropology from the Institute for Social and Cultural Anthropology at Oxford University for work done there on the impact of poverty, undernutrition, and infections on children in sub-Saharan Africa.
Between Expectations Md Meghan Maclean Weir 2011
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And every year we see that undernutrition can cost up to three and a half million child deaths.
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Official surveys of nutritional intakes and outcomes indicate that undernutrition is much more widespread than income poverty, however defined.
India's official poverty line doesn't measure up | Jayati Ghosh 2011
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Globally, we know that about 200 million suffer from chronic undernutrition.
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She was also awarded an MSc degree in Medical Anthropology from the Institute for Social and Cultural Anthropology at Oxford University for work done there on the impact of poverty, undernutrition, and infections on children in sub-Saharan Africa.
Between Expectations Md Meghan Maclean Weir 2011
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And every year we see that undernutrition can cost up to three and a half million child deaths.
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Globally, we know that about 200 million suffer from chronic undernutrition.
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