Malnutrition Quotes

• There is no actual starvation or deaths from starvation but there is widespread mortality from diseases due to malnutrition.

  Walter Duranty

  Disease, Mortality, Starvation

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• Hunger and malnutrition have devastating consequences for children and have been linked to low birth weight and birth defects, obesity, mental and physical health problems, and poorer educational outcomes.

  Marian Wright Edelman

  Children, Educational, Birth Defects

  "Preventable Hunger in Our Land of Plenty" by Marian Wright Edelman, www.huffingtonpost.com. November 27, 2013.

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• We may eventually come to realize that chastity is no more a virtue than malnutrition.

  Alex Comfort

  Inspirational, May, Dignity

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• Close to a billion people - one-eighth of the world's population - still live in hunger. Each year 2 million children die through malnutrition. This is happening at a time when doctors in Britain are warning of the spread of obesity. We are eating too much while others starve.

  Jonathan Sacks

  Children, Doctors, Years

  "Why Fighting Poverty and Hunger Is a Religious Duty" by Chief Rabbi Lord Sacks, www.huffingtonpost.com. January 26, 2013.

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• Our foremost priority is the removal of poverty, hunger and malnutrition, disease and illiteracy. All social welfare programmes must be implemented efficiently. Agencies involved in the delivery of services should have a strong sense of duty and work in a transparent, corruption-free, time-bound and accountable manner.

  Pratibha Patil

  Strong, Agency, Should Have

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• There can be no real growth without healthy populations. No sustainable development without tackling disease and malnutrition. No international security without assisting crisis-ridden countries. And no hope for the spread of freedom, democracy and human dignity unless we treat health as a basic human right.

  Gro Harlem Brundtland

  Country, Real, Health

  Gro Harlem Brundtland's speech to the International Conference on Public Health in Bergen, Oslo, www.who.int. June 16, 2003.

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• We need a new definition of malnutrition. Malnutrition means under- and over-nutrition. Malnutrition means emaciated and obese.

  Catherine Bertini

  Food, Mean, Needs

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• Contaminated food is a major cause of diarrhea, substantially contributing to malnutrition and killing about 2.2 million people each year, most of them children.

  Gro Harlem Brundtland

  Children, Years, People

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• People power must be combined with good governance to bring about real, deep and lasting change. This combination can achieve almost everything from eliminating corruption to ending malnutrition and illiteracy.

  Narendra Modi

  Real, Lasting Change, People

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• In a world that we know can feed itself, upwards of 40,000 children die very day from conditions of malnutrition. Surely we must question why we are allowing this carnage to continue

  Betty Williams

  Children, World, Carnage

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• The dual scourge of hunger and malnutrition will be truly vanquished not only when granaries are full, but also when people's basic health needs are met and women are given their rightful role in societies

  Gro Harlem Brundtland

  People, Needs, Roles

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• The fact is that there is enough food in the world for everyone. But tragically, much of the world's food and land resources are tied up in producing beef and other livestock-food for the well off-while millions of children and adults suffer from malnutrition and starvation.

  Walden Bello

  Children, Hunger And Poverty, Land

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• Chronic malnutrition, or the lack of proper nutrition over time directly contributes to three times as many child deaths as food scarcity. Yet surprisingly, you don't really hear about this hidden crisis through the morning news, Twitter or headlines of major newspapers.

  Cat Cora

  Morning, Children, Three

  "A Recipe for Fighting Child Malnutrition" by Cat Cora, www.huffingtonpost.com. February 17, 2012.

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• I really connect with those moments of doing missionary work down there and just seeing the people that are dying from disease and hunger and malnutrition.

  Deborah Cox

  People, Vision, Dying

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• Contradictory as it seems, malnutrition is a key contributor to obesity.

  Madeleine M. Kunin

  Keys, Obesity, Contradictory

  "National Security Depends on the Nation’s Food Security" by Madeleine M. Kunin, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 13, 2013.

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• There's another kind of poverty that only rich men know, a moral malnutrition that starves their very souls.

  Glenn Frey

  Men, Soul, Politics

  Song: I've Got Mine

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• Most of the villagers were hiding in the bush, where they were dying from bad water, malaria and malnutrition

  Nicholas D. Kristof

  Water, Dying, Malaria

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• My doctor felt that the main contributing factor was so many years of malnutrition, especially during my formative years, even before I got into modeling.

  Carre Otis

  Doctors, Years, Modeling

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• Beware the ends of the earth and the exotic: the drama is on your doorstep wherever the slums; are, wherever there is malnutrition, wherever there is exploitation and cruelty.

  John Grierson

  Drama, Exotic, Earth

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• This culture of waste has made us insensitive even to the waste and disposal of food, which is even more despicable when all over the world, unfortunately, many individuals and families are suffering from hunger and malnutrition.

  Pope Francis

  Food, Suffering, Culture

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• Our spirits...require nourishment. Just as there is food for the body, there is food for the spirit. The consequences of spiritual malnutrition are just as hurtful to our spiritual lives as physical malnutrition is to our physical bodies.

  Dallin H. Oaks

  Spiritual, Hurtful, Body

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• What happens when corn and wheat prices rise is that we see real increases in malnutrition and under-nutrition. And when children are malnourished, their brain development actually slows down and is affected. So this is not just a short-term impact.

  Jim Yong Kim

  Children, Real, Impact

  "World Bank Issues Alarming Climate Report". "Morning Edition" with David Greene, www.npr.org. December 7, 2012.

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• As the wealthiest nation on Earth, I believe the United States has a moral obligation to lead the fight against hunger and malnutrition, and to partner with others.

  Barack Obama

  Believe, Fighting, Hunger And Poverty

  "Obama welcomes Hollande as French president hints at Afghan compromise" by Ewen MacAskill, Patrick Wintour, www.theguardian.com. May 18, 2012.

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• I am so profoundly aware of my lack of skill to make any material difference. I am not a doctor. I can't influence foreign policy. I can't build schools. I can't chemically engineer the protein paste that helps people with acute malnutrition. But I can talk about it, and so can you.

  Tom Hiddleston

  School, Doctors, Skills

  Interview with Benedict Cumberbatch, www.interviewmagazine.com. September 24, 2016.

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• We cannot step aside and say that we have achieved our goal by inventing a new drug or a new way by which to treat presently incurable diseases, a new way to help those who suffer from malnutrition, or the creation of ideal balanced diets on a worldwide scale. We cannot rest till the way has been found, with our help, to bring our finest achievement to everyone.

  George W. Bush

  Science, Medicine, Goal

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