These crops have long served as the principal source of food and nutrition for many of the world's poorest and undernourished households.
Only three per cent were classed as undernourished although there were slightly more who had specific dietary defects but whose nutrition otherwise was good.
Supplementation in undernourished patients appeared to improve nutritional indices and some aspects of morbidity.
The population pressure which underlay these trends also made the outcome of each harvest more crucial, and periodic epidemics hit the undernourished population hard.
The study was an all-or-nothing approach and the enriched food was not limited to those residents who were undernourished.
Influence of postpartum weight and body condition change on duration of anestrus by undernourished suckled beef heifers.
The point is that the undernourished are at a severe disadvantage in their ability to obtain food.
Many studies appear to have been carried out in patients, only some of whom are undernourished, which makes the application of their findings difficult.
