0 the condition of not eating enough food to continue to be in good health:
Chronic undernourishment, poor hygiene and the harsh weather threatened the lives of everyone.
Maternal undernourishment can result in fetal growth retardation and underweight babies.
The urban poor in food importing countries will require increased humanitarian aid to stave off hunger and undernourishment.
He imagined the slowly increasing undernourishment of Europe in the late middle ages.
Undernourishment is defined as food consumption insufficient to meet minimum levels of dietary energy requirements.
