Undernutrition in children, occurs when children do not consume enough calories, protein, or micronutrients to maintain good health. It is common globally...

refer to undernutrition. However, the use of 'malnutrition' instead of 'undernutrition' makes it impossible to distinguish between undernutrition and overnutrition...

height, reflecting acute undernutrition. Child mortality: share of children who die before their fifth birthday, reflecting in part the fatal mix of inadequate...

Protein–energy undernutrition affects children the most because they have less protein intake.[further explanation needed] The few rare cases found in the developed...

malnutrition (or more precisely chronic undernutrition) and recurrent infections, such as diarrhea and helminthiasis, in early childhood and even before birth...

Services. Caulfield LE, de Onis M, Blössner M, Black RE (July 2004). "Undernutrition as an underlying cause of child deaths associated with diarrhea, pneumonia...

nearly half of under-five deaths are attributable to undernutrition." In 2005, Richard Horton, editor-in-chief of The Lancet, editorialized that "over 60%...

that for almost three decades, the rates of stunting and acute undernutrition in children under five years of age have remained stagnant, at 45 percent...

Malnutrition in children is covered by multiple articles: Undernutrition in children Childhood obesity This disambiguation page lists articles associated...

hunger. There are many consequences of hunger in Bangladesh, namely malnutrition, undernutrition in children, child stunting, and child wasting. According...