Hunger - Malnutrition, Famine, Starvation

Malnutrition, Famine, Starvation

  • Malnutrition is a general term for a condition caused by improper diet or nutrition; it can occur in conjunction with both under and over consumption of calories.
  • Famine is a widespread scarcity of food that may apply to any fauna species; the phenomenon is usually accompanied by regional malnutrition, starvation, epidemic, and increased mortality.
  • Starvation describes a "state of exhaustion of the body caused by lack of food." This state may precede death.

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    “If in this wide world, teeming with abundant supplies for human want, to thousands of wretched creatures no choice is open, save between starvation and sin, may we not justly say that there is something utterly wrong in the system that permits such things to be?”
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