Malnourished
adjective
Not getting enough food or nutrients to stay healthy.
Many children in the region are malnourished due to poverty.
Often appears as...
- seriously malnourished
- malnourished children
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Disapproving
adjective
Not getting enough food or nutrients to stay healthy.
Many children in the region are malnourished due to poverty.
Often appears as...
- seriously malnourished
- malnourished children
Usage tips
Disapproving
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Pro Tip 1/3Severity Emphasis
Use 'malnourished' to emphasize serious health issues due to inadequate food.
The doctor said he's malnourished; his diet lacks essential nutrients.
Pro Tip 2/3Not Just Hunger
'Malnourished' means poor diet quality, not just lack of food quantity.
Even though she eats enough, she is malnourished because her food isn't nutritious.
Pro Tip 3/3Beyond Poverty
Malnourishment can result from various issues, not just poverty.
Due to his illness, he became malnourished as he couldn't absorb nutrients properly.
Pro Tip 1/3Severity Emphasis
Use 'malnourished' to emphasize serious health issues due to inadequate food.
The doctor said he's malnourished; his diet lacks essential nutrients.
Pro Tip 2/3Not Just Hunger
'Malnourished' means poor diet quality, not just lack of food quantity.
Even though she eats enough, she is malnourished because her food isn't nutritious.
Pro Tip 3/3Beyond Poverty
Malnourishment can result from various issues, not just poverty.
Due to his illness, he became malnourished as he couldn't absorb nutrients properly.
Pro Tip 1/3Severity Emphasis
Use 'malnourished' to emphasize serious health issues due to inadequate food.
The doctor said he's malnourished; his diet lacks essential nutrients.
Pro Tip 2/3Not Just Hunger
'Malnourished' means poor diet quality, not just lack of food quantity.
Even though she eats enough, she is malnourished because her food isn't nutritious.
Pro Tip 3/3Beyond Poverty
Malnourishment can result from various issues, not just poverty.
Due to his illness, he became malnourished as he couldn't absorb nutrients properly.
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Rescuing Adorable Grey...
whether it's severely malnourished for example or if it's okay and we can also tube feed it as well give it some rehydration fluids some of the animals that we come across are quite dehydrated and skinny and really exhausted as well so to have that early perk up before we take it into a rehabilitation center really can help while they're in transport seeing
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Steve Boyes: Reviving...
we were the problem we had destroyed these forests they were not feeding themselves effectively they were malnourished and the virus took over each year each year in the malt season we there was found dead birds we engaged the media to find people to help us we would mobilize we've got every church every shopping center in the the
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Let's crowdsource the...
are malnourished to the point of stunting a horrible term which means physical and cognitive lifelong impairment so there's plainly a lot more to do on the goals we've got but then a lot of people think there are things that should have been in the original package that weren't agreed that then that should now be included like
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How quinoa can help...
I know how it feels to be hungry. I've been there. And I know how it feels to be malnourished, because I've been there, too. Introducing crops with high biodiversity, adaptability and nutritional value will play an important role in creating food security,
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4 steps to ending...
She never went to school, and at the age of 15, she was married off to an abusive husband. He eventually abandoned her, leaving her with no income and two children who were not in school and were severely malnourished. With no one to turn to for help,
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Laurie Garrett: What can...
And after circulating around the world came back in a form that was tremendously lethal. What percentage of infected people were killed by it? Again we don't really know for sure. It's clear that if you were malnourished to begin with,
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Mother Nature’s...
the start of it well I love Moringa because I started a project with my friend how are you kubu in this tiny dry malnourished spot in Ghana and the idea was to help women grow a crop that they could sell and that was also nutritious
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What if a single human...
When we arrived at the home, we found her on the floor. Her legs were badly scarred and infected, she was malnourished, she had never gone to school and she had spent most of her life confined to this small, dark room.
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Josette Sheeran: Ending...
Their brains and bodies will be stunted. And here you see a brain scan of two children -- one who had adequate nutrition, another, neglected and who was deeply malnourished. And we can see brain volumes
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The Future of Flying...
The first one has to do with agriculture, which is probably the biggest problem that we're facing worldwide. As you well know, one in every seven persons in this earth is malnourished.
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Rescuing Adorable Grey...
whether it's severely malnourished for example or if it's okay and we can also tube feed it as well give it some rehydration fluids some of the animals that we come across are quite dehydrated and skinny and really exhausted as well so to have that early perk up before we take it into a rehabilitation center really can help while they're in transport seeing
Video examples
Steve Boyes: Reviving...
we were the problem we had destroyed these forests they were not feeding themselves effectively they were malnourished and the virus took over each year each year in the malt season we there was found dead birds we engaged the media to find people to help us we would mobilize we've got every church every shopping center in the the
Video examples
Let's crowdsource the...
are malnourished to the point of stunting a horrible term which means physical and cognitive lifelong impairment so there's plainly a lot more to do on the goals we've got but then a lot of people think there are things that should have been in the original package that weren't agreed that then that should now be included like
Video examples
How quinoa can help...
I know how it feels to be hungry. I've been there. And I know how it feels to be malnourished, because I've been there, too. Introducing crops with high biodiversity, adaptability and nutritional value will play an important role in creating food security,
Video examples
4 steps to ending...
She never went to school, and at the age of 15, she was married off to an abusive husband. He eventually abandoned her, leaving her with no income and two children who were not in school and were severely malnourished. With no one to turn to for help,
Video examples
Laurie Garrett: What can...
And after circulating around the world came back in a form that was tremendously lethal. What percentage of infected people were killed by it? Again we don't really know for sure. It's clear that if you were malnourished to begin with,
Video examples
Mother Nature’s...
the start of it well I love Moringa because I started a project with my friend how are you kubu in this tiny dry malnourished spot in Ghana and the idea was to help women grow a crop that they could sell and that was also nutritious
Video examples
What if a single human...
When we arrived at the home, we found her on the floor. Her legs were badly scarred and infected, she was malnourished, she had never gone to school and she had spent most of her life confined to this small, dark room.
Video examples
Josette Sheeran: Ending...
Their brains and bodies will be stunted. And here you see a brain scan of two children -- one who had adequate nutrition, another, neglected and who was deeply malnourished. And we can see brain volumes
Video examples
The Future of Flying...
The first one has to do with agriculture, which is probably the biggest problem that we're facing worldwide. As you well know, one in every seven persons in this earth is malnourished.
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Park Yeon-mi
North Korean Activist
There were stereotypes: you are from the communist country so you are not a hard worker. You talk awkwardly and speak with an accent and you don't have any high education like us so you are basically stupid. And I am shorter than South Koreans - I was malnourished when I was young. It made me believe I was a loser.
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Dick Gregory
American Comedian
I went to Ethiopia, and it dawned on me that you can tell a starving, malnourished person because they've got a bloated belly and a bald head. And I realized that if you come through any American airport and see businessmen running through with bloated bellies and bald heads, that's malnutrition, too.
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Rakesh Jhunjhunwala
Indian Businessman
Children malnourished at age 5 tend to suffer permanent physical and mental damage. So if I can save a child from malnutrition, I find it has an extremely favorable risk-reward ratio - the cost I incur versus the overall benefit that I can bring to society.
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Jim Yong Kim
South Korean Public Servant
What happens when corn and wheat prices rise is that we see real increases in malnutrition and under-nutrition. And when children are malnourished, their brain development actually slows down and is affected. So this is not just a short-term impact.
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Matthew Scully
American Author
Veal, by definition, is the product of a sick, anemic, deliberately malnourished calf, a newborn dragged away from his mother in the first hours of life. Veal calves are dealt the harshest of punishments for the least essential of meats.
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Samantha Power
Irish Public Servant
Zimbabweans are severely malnourished, and deaths from starvation occur even in the cities. The country has not yet suffered nationwide famine only because international donors have stepped in.
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Liya Kebede
Ethiopian Model
When a woman has her first child in places like Africa, they're really young. They can be 12, 13,14, so their frames are really small, and they're usually malnourished.
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Dan Gelber
American Politician
Getting straight A's for having lots of tests is not the same as getting A's on the tests. Weighing a malnourished dog every day doesn't make him any better.
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Rose George
British Journalist
Diarrhoea is the reason you can have a malnourished child in a well-fed family.
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Park Yeon-mi
North Korean Activist
There were stereotypes: you are from the communist country so you are not a hard worker. You talk awkwardly and speak with an accent and you don't have any high education like us so you are basically stupid. And I am shorter than South Koreans - I was malnourished when I was young. It made me believe I was a loser.
Quote examples
Dick Gregory
American Comedian
I went to Ethiopia, and it dawned on me that you can tell a starving, malnourished person because they've got a bloated belly and a bald head. And I realized that if you come through any American airport and see businessmen running through with bloated bellies and bald heads, that's malnutrition, too.
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Rakesh Jhunjhunwala
Indian Businessman
Children malnourished at age 5 tend to suffer permanent physical and mental damage. So if I can save a child from malnutrition, I find it has an extremely favorable risk-reward ratio - the cost I incur versus the overall benefit that I can bring to society.
Quote examples
Jim Yong Kim
South Korean Public Servant
What happens when corn and wheat prices rise is that we see real increases in malnutrition and under-nutrition. And when children are malnourished, their brain development actually slows down and is affected. So this is not just a short-term impact.
Quote examples
Matthew Scully
American Author
Veal, by definition, is the product of a sick, anemic, deliberately malnourished calf, a newborn dragged away from his mother in the first hours of life. Veal calves are dealt the harshest of punishments for the least essential of meats.
Quote examples
Samantha Power
Irish Public Servant
Zimbabweans are severely malnourished, and deaths from starvation occur even in the cities. The country has not yet suffered nationwide famine only because international donors have stepped in.
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Liya Kebede
Ethiopian Model
When a woman has her first child in places like Africa, they're really young. They can be 12, 13,14, so their frames are really small, and they're usually malnourished.
Quote examples
Dan Gelber
American Politician
Getting straight A's for having lots of tests is not the same as getting A's on the tests. Weighing a malnourished dog every day doesn't make him any better.
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Rose George
British Journalist
Diarrhoea is the reason you can have a malnourished child in a well-fed family.
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