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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“And who is any of us, that without starvation he can go through the kingdoms of starvation?”
—Haniel Long (1888–1956)