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  • n  not having enough food to develop or function normally

  • Duesberg and Resnick argue that the high incidence of AIDS in Africa is based less on unprotected sex than on such poverty-related conditions as undernourishment.
  • Bill Clinton was touring Africa last week--seeing for himself the effects of disease and undernourishment on a generation of the continent's children--when his thoughts turned to .
  • Although that has long been the way food works, it is becoming less so--at least in the developed world, where scarcity has been replaced by overabundance and undernourishment by .
News & Articles

  • Children's Obesity Fund Recommends New Approaches to Fight Obesity in Low Income Areas Based on Rice University Study ...
    A recent Rice University study uncovers a significant link between poverty and obesity. The findings reveal the double burden of undernourishment and obesity in low-income communities, which can lead to developmental delays and poor academic performance in schools, in addition to the primary health issues already associated with obesity. (PRWeb June 21, 2013) Read the full story at http://www ...
    June 21, 2013 - PRWeb
  • Georgie Porgie Joins with Charity to Promote Healthy Kids
    Georgie Porgie, an exciting new company creating children’s products designed to make America’s kids active and healthy, is joining forces with Action for Healthy Kids (AFHK), a charity fighting childhood obesity, undernourishment and physical inactivity. (PRWeb June 20, 2013) Read the full story at http://www.prweb.com/releases/2013/6/prweb10847754.htm
    June 20, 2013 - PRWeb
Quotes

  • Robert Maynard Hutchins in San Francisco Chronicle
    Otherwise, as the brilliant educator Robert Maynard Hutchins said: "The death of democracy is not likely to be an assassination from ambush. It will be a slow extinction from apathy, indifference and undernourishment."
  • Bob Graham in WWSB ABC 7
    The 72-year-old Graham says the center's mission is to "attack apathy, indifference and undernourishment" of democracy.
  • Chakraborty in Khaleej Times
    Slow arsenic poisoning is made even more tragic by the fact that its effects are accelerated by undernourishment,Chakraborty said.

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