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    Malnutrition occurs when an organism gets too few or too many nutrients, resulting in health problems. Specifically, it is "a deficiency, excess, or imbalance...
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  • children under three years old are underweight. One of the major causes for malnutrition in India is economic inequality. Due to the low economic status of some...
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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...
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    that—12 billion people. Reducing malnutrition is key part of Sustainable Development Goal 2, "Zero hunger", with a malnutrition target alongside reducing under...
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    Maharashtra (Marathi: [məhaːɾaːʂʈɾə] ) is a state in the western peninsular region of India occupying a substantial portion of the Deccan Plateau. It is...
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    Care of these children must also include careful management of their malnutrition and treatment of other infections. Useful signs of dehydration include...
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  • Malnutrition in children is covered by multiple articles: Undernutrition in children Childhood obesity This disambiguation page lists articles associated...
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    1935 had advocated for an international forum to address hunger and malnutrition. The Conference ended with a commitment to establish a permanent organization...
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  • Zimbabwe, a country in southern Africa, is suffering widespread malnutrition and diseases, such as HIV/AIDS, tuberculosis, and malaria. "One in four human...
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  • Malnutrition–inflammation complex (syndrome) (MICS), also known as malnutrition–inflammation–cachexia syndrome, is a common condition in chronic disease...
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  • List of types of malnutrition or list of nutritional disorders include diseases that results from excessive or inadequate intake of food and nutrients...
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    in preventing undernutrition, malnutrition and stunting and ensuring normal early childhood development. Malnutrition has been indicated as a negative...
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    Kwashiorkor (category Protein–energy malnutrition)
    KWOSH-ee-OR-kor, -⁠kər, is also KWASH-) is a form of severe protein malnutrition characterized by edema and an enlarged liver with fatty infiltrates....
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  • Malnutrition is an important health concern in Tibet. According to a study conducted in 1994/1995 in eleven districts of Tibet, malnutrition affected more...
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  • of clinical nutrition, malnutrition has causes, epidemiology and management distinct from those associated with malnutrition that is mainly related to...
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    outcomes. Undernutrition is sometimes used synonymously with malnutrition, however, malnutrition could mean both undernutrition or overnutrition (causing...
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    food security, or a poor understanding of nutritional requirements. Malnutrition and its consequences are large contributors to deaths, physical deformities...
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  • Malnutrition continues to be a problem in the Republic of South Africa, although it is not as common as in other countries of Sub-Saharan Africa. 15% of...
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    Emaciation (category Malnutrition)
    thinness from absence of body fat and muscle wasting usually resulting from malnutrition. Emaciation manifests physically as thin limbs, pronounced and protruding...
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  • Muesli belt malnutrition is a term coined by Professor Vincent Marks, author of the book Panic Nation, to describe the supposed phenomenon that parents...
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    Kraft Foods Group, Inc. (doing business as Kraft Foods Group) was an American food manufacturing and processing conglomerate, split from Kraft Foods Inc...
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    fat tissue to "waste" away. Wasting is sometimes referred to as "acute malnutrition" because it is believed that episodes of wasting have a short duration...
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    Hunger (redirect from Hunger (malnutrition))
    experience, also known as an appetite. The most extreme form of hunger, when malnutrition is widespread, and when people have started dying of starvation through...
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    Marasmus (category Protein–energy malnutrition)
    Marasmus is a form of severe malnutrition characterized by energy deficiency. It can occur in anyone with severe malnutrition but usually occurs in children...
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  • Malnutrition in Nigeria, directly or indirectly, is the cause of 45 percent of all death of under-five children. Malnutrition is the cause of stunted...
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    diseases: tuberculosis, HIV, tetanus, malaria, measles, rubella, leprosy Malnutrition and environmental sanitation problems add to this burden. Historically...
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  • reduces the energy intake from foods and beverages without incurring malnutrition. The possible effect of calorie restriction on body weight management...
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  • Global Acute Malnutrition (GAM) is a measurement of the nutritional status of a population that is often used in protracted refugee situations. Along with...
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  • Malnutrition is a condition that affects bodily capacities of an individual, including growth, pregnancy, lactation, resistance to illness, and cognitive...
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    A birth defect, also known as a congenital disorder, is an abnormal condition that is present at birth regardless of its cause. Birth defects may result...
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