The phrase "bad nutrition" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe a diet that lacks essential nutrients or is unhealthy.
Example: "Many health issues can arise from bad nutrition, including obesity and heart disease."
Alternatives: "poor diet" or "unhealthy eating".
Education is bad, nutrition is poor and problems like alcoholism and child abuse abound.
"They are recognizing that there are foods with a bad nutrition profile and those foods should not be allowed to claim they are good for you".
And while many a store might proffer the occasional free doughnut — good will, if bad nutrition — few hand out free sweaters.
That broad splurge of handouts is driven more by raw politics than by development priorities.It would be better to deal with pitifully bad nutrition than plain hunger.
Started in mid-1997, it aims to help the rural poor escape the vicious circle of low income, bad nutrition, poor health and lack of education.
In this way, supermarkets worm their way into the heart of decision-making about ill-health and bad nutrition, unchallenged about their role in encouraging it.
The contrast between the good and the bad of "nutrition experts" was highlighted this week providing a lesson in the care it takes to obtain reliable health information in a digital world where anyone can be an expert.
If there weren't any stars or checks at all, shoppers could infer that the item was a bad bet nutrition-wise.
In this good-and-bad era of nutrition science, negative nutritional messages dominated dietary guidelines, with exhortations to "avoid," "reduce" and "eat less" of these harmful nutrients.
And we need governments to reward businesses for doing good things for nutritious foods and penalise them when they produce bad things for nutrition.
Whether it's war and conflict, climate change and extreme weather events, the downward spiral of poverty and poor nutrition, bad government and economic policies, or gender inequality, most of the reasons for hunger and famine are the fault of humans.
