Section Overview

Malnutrition is a medical condition that affects billions, often without the affected persons knowledge. This is because Malnutrition is such a broad condition, that affects insufficient intake of a variety of nutrients, not just calories and carbohydrates. To understand what malnutrition is about, we have to first understand:

• What malnutrition is
  
• What types of malnutrition exists
  
• What its underlying causes/factors are

Below is a index to all the topics that will be covered in this section: