a poor condition of health caused by a lack of food or a lack of the right type of foodcomparenutritionOxford Collocations Dictionaryadjectivesevere,acute,chronic,…verb + malnutritionsuffer,suffer from,die from,…Seefull entrySee related entries:Healthy eating habits,Poverty and famine
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