undernourishment
Not eating enough
Undernourishment is the state of not getting enough food or nutrients to maintain health.
It describes chronic inadequate nutrition rather than acute starvation: Undernourishment in childhood can cause lasting developmental problems.
The term appears often in discussions of food security and public health, measuring populations who lack sufficient caloric intake.
Nutritional bone-weakening illness
- scurvyVitamin C deficiency disease
- beriberiVitamin B1 deficiency disease
- pellagraNiacin-lack illness
- anemiaRed cell deficiency
goiter · cachexia · deficiency · malabsorption · wasting · emaciation · edema · weakness
Arresting natural growth
- wastingUsing poorly, inefficiently
- underweightBelow normal mass
- underdevelopedInsufficiently grown or advanced
- delayedMade to wait longer
impeded · inhibited · atrophy · slowed · lagging · developmental · cognitive · impairment
State of extreme deprivation
- destitutionExtreme poverty, lacking necessities
- inequalityUnequal distribution of resources
- subsistenceMinimal means of living
- hardshipSuffering from difficult circumstances
disparity · aid · welfare · humanitarian · vulnerable · marginalized · developing · famine
Shortfall in amount needed
- inadequacyState of being insufficient
- deficitAmount still owed
- shortageDeficient supply of necessities
- deprivationState of lacking necessities
lack · scarcity · paucity · dearth · want · undersupply · meagerness · privation
rickets
Nutritional bone-weakening illness
anemia · goiter · cachexia · deficiency · malabsorption · wasting · emaciation · edema · weakness · fatigue
stunting
Arresting natural growth
- wastingUsing poorly, inefficiently
- underweightBelow normal mass
- underdevelopedInsufficiently grown or advanced
delayed · impeded · inhibited · atrophy · slowed · lagging · developmental · cognitive · impairment · physical
impoverishment
State of extreme deprivation
- destitutionExtreme poverty, lacking necessities
- inequalityUnequal distribution of resources
- subsistenceMinimal means of living
hardship · disparity · aid · welfare · humanitarian · vulnerable · marginalized · developing · famine · drought
insufficiency
Shortfall in amount needed
- inadequacyState of being insufficient
- deficitAmount still owed
- shortageDeficient supply of necessities
deprivation · lack · scarcity · paucity · dearth · want · undersupply · meagerness · privation · shortfall
famished
Intensely, painfully hungry
gnawing · pangs · appetite · cravings · fasting · underfed · chronically · persistent · acute
protein
Folded amino chain
iron · zinc · iodine · calcium · micronutrients · macronutrients · folate · essential · dietary
- hungerhunger, hungry, starving, starvation, famished
- malnutritionmalnutrition, starvation, undernutrition, wasting, stunting
undernourishmentovernourishment
Excessive intake of nutrients
overnutrition · overeating · overfeeding · satiation · well-fed
undernourishmentobesity
Excess body fat condition
overweight · corpulence · morbid obesity · plumpness · robustness
nurture, nourish, nutrition, nourishment, nutritious, nutrient, nutrients, nourished, malnourished