Some malnutrition, obviously, is caused by an inadequate diet.
Inadequate diet claims many thousands of lives each day.
Today, 4,000-5,000 children are dying every month because of the poor water supplies, an inadequate diet and a lack of health care.
These included cold temperatures, inadequate diet and lack of access to open air or exercise for up to three months at a time.
It is a heartbreaking fact that people who are some of the most deprived in our society are living on an inadequate diet.
Vitamin deficiencies, the most important forms of selective malnutrition, may arise in a variety of ways, the most common and the most important being an improper, inadequate diet.
At the most basic level, the problem is related to an inadequate diet, either in quantity (easy to detect) or quality (not so easy to detect until damage has been done).
In comments that at an event in London hosted by the Food and Drink Federation, Ms Soubry said: 'It is a heartbreaking fact that people who are some of the most deprived in our society are living on an inadequate diet,' she said.
The jury heard Hamzah had a "grossly inadequate" diet, suffered osteoporosis and was wearing a baby grow for a six to nine-month-old infant when he died.
She added: "It is a heartbreaking fact that people who are some of the most deprived in our society are living on an inadequate diet.
The four-year-old boy, described by neighbours as "pale and weak" looking, was wearing baby clothes at the time of his death and was suffering osteoporosis as a result of a "grossly inadequate" diet.
