Malnutrition
* adversely affects women's participation in the economic system and their productivity.
* affects a large proportion of rural children
  - three times more children under four in the countryside than in the towns
* aggravates cirrhosis.
* already cause of over a third of deaths of children under five in Africa.
* can also be a major cause of obesity
  - heighten the adverse impacts of toxic substances
  - impede mental development
* can also occur because of the drugs anti-appetite effects
  - if the food is inadequate in one or more of the required nutrients
  - reduce the effectiveness of the immune system
  - stem from disease
* can cause disability as well as increase susceptibility to other disabling diseases
  - falls
  - suffering in the brain
* can have an effect at any time of development but is most profound early in life
  - long-term effects by stunting growth or causing mental retardation
  - lead to anemia and weight loss
* can result from the lack of food resulting from meth's reduction in a user's appetite
  - in decreased immune function and decreased ability to heal
  - selectively destroy central vision at the retinal level
  - severely affect a child's intellectual development
  - trigger ADHD, and large numbers of U.S. children are malnourished
* causes severe health problems, and can also affect education
  - the body fluid to be hypotonic from decreased protein and sodium levels
* chronic problem among children
  - in all areas
* comes from a wide variety of reasons.
* common contributing factor to feather plucking
  - problem among elderly people living in nursing homes and in the community
* continues to be an important problem.
* contributes more than any other single factor to disease and injury worldwide.
* contributes to liver disease
  - more than half of the under-five deaths in developing countries
  - the risk
* decreases a person's ability to fight off infection.
* deficiency disease
* frequent problem and, in turn, contributes to many others.
* general term that indicates a lack of some or all-nutritional elements.
* handicaps the ability to learn, to work, and to grow.
* has economic ripple effects that can jeopardize development.
* human-made disease.
* impairs many aspects of specific and nonspecific host defense.
* increases the risk for contracting a number of medical conditions
  - severity of the disease signs
  - susceptibility to diseases such as diarrhea and malaria
* is also a serious problem
* is an example of the inadequate care and treatment provided by the nursing home
  - independent predictor of mortality in excess of the primary diagnosis
  - issue for two out of five nursing home residents
  - ongoing problem
  - another possible adverse effect of alcohol
* is associated with higher cancer treatment-related morbidity and mortality
  - more than half of all deaths of children worldwide
  - poverty
  - caused by lack of proper food
* is common among nursing home residents
  - during high water
* is common in both anorexia and bulimia
  - children with cystic fibrosis, because few nutrients are absorbed
  - within the Swedish health service
  - endemic in developing countries
  - endemic, reaching fifty to sixty percent of the population outside Baghdad
  - epidemic
  - equally severe in adults
* is high and rising
  - for a fertile country with a relatively stable food supply
  - high, as are chronic eye and skin conditions
* is more and more likely to result from over consumption
  - pronounced in rural areas
  - much more common in the UK than people think especially among the elderly
  - now endemic amongst children
* is often both a result and a cause of social and economic under-development
  - more common than undernutrition, and few so-called healthy patients are well
  - on the increase and there are growing concerns over the health of vulnerable groups
* is one of the greatest dangers
  - main consequences of chronic hunger
  - major public health problems in developing countries
  - most serious problems facing the third world countries today
  - worst effects of sanctions
  - prevalent and diseases like malaria, hookworm and tuberculosis are endemic
  - rampant
  - rare
  - reported to be high and increasing
  - rife, as are serious diseases such as malaria and aids
  - rooted more in poverty environmental degradation and social disparity
  - serious, and even life-threatening
  - social problem
* is the inadequate intake of any of the required nutrients
  - most visible and problematic effect of land and water shortage
  - omnipresent physical and psychological fact of the Iraqi people
  - thought to account for half of child deaths
* is visible in a generation of children and teenagers who are small in size
  - many villages
* is widespread and children's bellies are distended with hunger
  - the incidence of infectious and parasitic diseases is increasing
  - widespread, especially among the young and the poor
* kills or seriously impairs large segments of the world's population.
* kills, maims and disables.
* later can cause insult.
* leading to generalized tissue wasting prominent feature of chronic uremia.
* leads to a decrease in quality of life and an increase in health-service expenditures
  - diarrhea and dehydration, and ultimately death
  - disabilities as well
  - hypomagnesemia when dietary intake of magnesium is low
  - infections
* lowers the bodies defense against invasive disease
  - body's resistance to virulent and chronic illness
* major cause of illness and death in cancer patients
  - contributing factor to the development of hypophosphatemia
* major factor in readmission to hospitals
  - that contributes to growth retardation in children
* makes cirrhosis worse
  - people more prone to illness
* manifests itself in a number of life-threatening ways.
* occurs when too little food is eaten to continue the body's functions.
* opens the door to a number of medical conditions.
* problem in many developing countries.
* refers to insufficient, excessive, or imbalanced consumption of nutrients.
* remains a chronic problem for many
  - major health issue today, particularly in rural areas
  - an impediment to development for women and children
* renders millions of people around the globe less productive.
* represents another major threat to the lives of young refugee children.
* results from insufficient intake to meet the patient's metabolic needs.
* seems to be self evident.
* serious problem for Guinea
* severely deprives the body of Jung.
* significant factor in the development of pressure ulcers.
* silent emergency
  - epidemic among seniors
* still threatens the lives of millions of children worldwide.
* term which covers problems of both under nutrition and over nutrition.
* then leads to disease and death.
* threatens a country's future.
* very real threat to the community, particularly the very young and old.
* wide-spread problem throughout Haiti.