A senior official in the foreign ministry characterises America's line as: "Guys with gross obesity telling guys just emerging from emaciation to go on a major diet".India has entered negotiations to replace the Kyoto protocol, which expires in 2012, in the same spirit.
The general condition of the body is of value in diagnosing diseases that cause excessive leanness (emaciation), including certain cancers, or other chronic diseases, such as a deficiency in the output of the adrenal glands or tuberculosis.
Defective teeth also may point to malnutrition and result in emaciation.
It may spring from psychoneurotic causes, as in anorexia nervosa, a lack of appetite, primarily in young women, that may lead to extreme emaciation and even to death.
Daniel, who weighed less than 11kgs and was in a state of "skeletal emaciation" when he died, had been seen by a paediatrician three weeks before he was found dead who reported that he was underweight but not "wasted".
They are often dehydrated, which is typical with emaciation.
They are targeted at vulnerable women seeking the quickest route to emaciation.
Evans failed to dispose of the carcasses of 119 sheep containing "specified risk material", court documents said, and caused suffering to sheep by failing to address "emaciation and weakness", lameness or provide clean, dry bedding.
The other is anorexia nervosa, which is characterized by extreme dieting, a refusal to maintain normal body weight, and subsequent emaciation; however, anorexia may also involve episodes of binge eating and purging.
"Now, here's the part I like: 'She shows in her emaciation the effects of the long wasting illness of eight months that has reduced her large, matronly figure to a thin, frail form.' " "That's what I want in my obituary," Carolyn Gilbert said.
The adult Manea was also miserable — spied upon, his books censored, anti-Semitism adding menace to the emaciation of Communist life.
