Poverty,malnutrition,overcrowding, lack of clean conditions, pollution and limited health services are all causes of their poor health.

VOA: special.2009.07.20

"We thought we'd find all malnutrition, but what we found was the paradox.

VOA: special.2010.05.12

"We should treat malnutrition in women both before and doing pregnancy.

VOA: special.2009.10.26

These monkeys were given vitamins and minerals to prevent malnutrition.

VOA: special.2009.09.01

Malnutrition remains a serious problem for India.

VOA: special.2010.05.12

"Just helping women farmers have the same access to inputs and control of resources that male farmers have would really do a lot in terms of improving agriculture productivity, reducing hunger and malnutrition."

VOA: special.2011.03.22

Any marginal changes in the weather,she says, can drive thousands of children into a situation of severe and acute malnutrition.

VOA: standard.2010.02.04

It says malnutrition rates are high. It says 46 percent of children under five are underweight and 53 percent are suffering from stunting.

VOA: standard.2009.08.21

The World Health Organization says chronic malnutrition in Gaza has increased during the past few years and is now just over 10 percent.

VOA: standard.2010.06.01

UNICEF reports the global financial crisis and unstable food prices are increasing poverty and malnutrition.

VOA: standard.2010.02.04

WHO reports more than three-and-a-half million people die every year from malnutrition-related causes.

VOA: standard.2010.01.02

She says children there are at risk of severe and acute malnutrition.

VOA: standard.2010.02.04

"It also protects against malnutrition.

VOA: standard.2009.08.01

"If there is any truth to that, can you imagine the impact on hunger, on acute and chronic malnutrition?" Scientists say the warming of the planet will be gradual, but that extreme weather events will increase in frequency and intensity.

VOA: standard.2010.01.02

"When you have a situation like this occur, you are bound to have a situation down the line where there could be a shortage in food, which can also trigger other negative situations, such as malnutrition, for example, or insufficient food for cattle, which is also another important economic sector in West Africa,".

VOA: standard.2009.09.08