As a three-year-old, I suffered from kwashiorkor, a severe protein deficiency; this was not helped by eating the weevils in the rice, which we left in for their protein value.
Starvation is still a major concern, and 200 children are dying each week of malnutrition or the protein deficiency called kwashiorkor that killed thousands during the war.
Nearly all the children suffered from the dread protein-deficiency disease called kwashiorkor, which shriveled limbs, swelled bellies and fouled the blood.