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    Malnutrition
    Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2007

    MALNUTRITION insufficiency of one or more nutritional elements necessary for health and well-being. Primary malnutrition is caused by the lack of essential foodstuffs usually...not available. However, even when food is plentiful, malnutrition can result from poor eating habits. Secondary malnutrition...
     
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    Starvation
    Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2007

    ...forced the body to feed on itself. Causes are famine, fasting, malnutrition, or abnormalities of the mucosal lining of the digestive...dizziness, weakness, and loss of bone mass; these lead to malnutrition. First to be lost are fat deposits and large quantities of...
     
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    Edema
    Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2007

    ...accompany other conditions, including obesity, diseased leg veins, kidney disease, cirrhosis of the liver, anemia, and severe malnutrition. Edema is the result of venous ulceration, which is often caused by an increase in tissue pressure (increased fluid within...
     
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    Concentration Camp
    Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2007

    ...detained in them, a large proportion died of mistreatment, malnutrition, and disease. In both Nazi and Japanese camps inmates were...labor and are underfed and mistreated. In 1992, reports of malnutrition and killings in concentration camps for Muslim, Croat, and...
     
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    Cirrhosis
    Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2007

    ...males with a history of chronic alcoholism and is caused in part by protein deficiency (specifically choline), a type of malnutrition common in alcoholics. Protein deprivation is also responsible for kwashiorkor , a nutritional deficiency with symptoms...
     

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