undernourishment in English

noun

condition of getting less than the required food needed for health and growth

Use "undernourishment" in a sentence

1. 1 His health collapsed from undernourishment.

2. Likewise, fetal undernourishment can cause a lifelong impairment of the immune system.

3. 6 The collapse of his health is brougt on by undernourishment.

4. 2 What with overwork and ( what with ) undernourishment , she fell ill.

5. 3 What with overwork and what with undernourishment his brother became very ill.

6. A very low height-to-age ratio may reveal chronic undernourishment —the child is stunted.

7. 4 Few of them starved to death: diseases take a deadlier toll of weakened bodies than undernourishment.

8. 7 Forty per cent of children under five in developing countries are short for their age because of undernourishment.

9. 5 The workers' ignorance compounds their poverty: everywhere, failure to follow the most elementary rules of diet makes undernourishment worse.

10. Victims of kwashiorkor commonly exhibit reduced ability to recover fluids, immune system failure, and low lipid absorption, all of which result from a state of severe undernourishment.

11. Will the world’s Breadbaskets become less reliable? Over the past few decades, people around the world have benefited from a growing supply of food, keeping prices relatively stable and reducing undernourishment to near all-time lows