malnutrition

IPA: mæɫnutrˈɪʃʌn

Examples of "malnutrition" in Sentences

Protein malnutrition is serious in developing areas.
Though acute malnutrition is on the decline, hunger in Niger is always a cycle.
At the moment, the overall spending on malnutrition is 350 million dollars a year.
Protein malnutrition is widespread, especially among children, and many of its victims die or are maimed both physically and mentally for life.
Hundreds of millions of the hungry are children, and malnutrition is the underlying cause of at least 2.5 million preventable child deaths each year.
A recently released report from the International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) projects a significant increase in malnutrition in developing countries over the next decade.
The latest survey of women's and children's health and nutrition, based on a survey of 23,000 households throughout the nation, reveals that a marked decrease in malnutrition is being replaced, unfortunately, by a higher incidence of obesity.