Malnutrition

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Malnutrition is a general term for the condition in which a person or animal either has too little food or is missing important nutrients.

Most commonly, malnourished people or animals either do not have enough calories in their diet, or are eating a diet that lacks protein, vitamins, or trace minerals. Medical problems arising from malnutrition are commonly referred to as deficiency diseases. Scurvy is a well-known and now rare form of malnutrition, in which the victim lacks vitamin C.

See also

• Famine
• Anorexia nervosa
• Copenhagen Consensus
• Starvation

References

• Adapted from the Wikipedia article, "Malnutrition" http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Malnutrition, used under the GNU Free Documentation License