'undernutrition' is a correct and usable word in written English.
It is typically used to describe a state of insufficient nutrient intake for a prolonged period of time. Example sentence: Children suffering from undernutrition are at higher risk of developing health problems.
Many North Korean children remain ill-fed: 5% still suffer from acute hunger and an appalling 32% from chronic undernutrition.
It is also worth saying that undernutrition may not have spiked, the world still faces a big problem of poor nutrition (lack of micro-nutrients, as opposed to lack of calories).
Some American school districts now recognise the part nutrition plays in learning and offer breakfast to pupils who have not eaten at home.Dealing with maternal malnutrition (which is not the same as undernutrition) is even more important, because environmental damage wrought in the womb is as irreversible as the effects of bad genes.
The Wellcome Trust and the Gates Foundation are sponsoring a study of food companies' role in fighting over- and undernutrition in both rich and poor countries.
According to the report, more than 5m children die each year from hunger-related causes, and undernutrition is costing the world $30 billion a year in direct medical costs alone.In this section Overview Hunger Economy Financial markets Reprints.
In Mauritania and Niger around a third of babies are born underweight.Poor maternal health and serious undernutrition are big reasons for this.
At the start of the 21st century, approximately 20,000 people, the majority of them children, died each day from undernutrition and related diseases that could have been prevented.
Chronic undernutrition manifests primarily as protein-energy malnutrition (PEM), which is the most common form of malnutrition worldwide.
Although the so-called diseases of civilization for example, heart disease, stroke, cancer, and diabetes will be the focus of this article, the most significant nutrition-related disease is chronic undernutrition, which plagues more than 925 million people worldwide.
Undernutrition is a condition in which there is insufficient food to meet energy needs; its main characteristics include weight loss, failure to thrive, and wasting of body fat and muscle.
The World Health Organization (WHO) has recognized obesity as a worldwide epidemic affecting more than 500 million adults and paradoxically coexisting with undernutrition in both developing and industrialized countries.
