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Nutrition and Disease Jacqueline Boyett Rasmussen College HUN2000: Nutrition Brian Garrity January 31, 2020 This study source was downloaded by from CourseH on :28:13 GMT -05:00 NUTRITION AND DISEASE 2 Nutrition and Disease Malnutrition is the physical state of unbalanced nutrition. [ CITATION Ell19 l 1033 ] The most common way that people think of malnutrition is of someone that is skinny or frail because they do not eat enough. This is one form of malnutrition, but there are other cases as well. Since it is defined as “unbalanced nutrition”, it means that it can be a lack of or over consumption of certain essential nutrients. In the U.S., it is much more common for a person to become malnourished by overconsuming. However, there are still cases of people that are lacking nutrients in their diet. This could be occurring because they do not have money to buy food so they are reliant on what they are given or can find. This can lead to someone not consuming what their body needs but instead whatever they can get. This may also be occurring because a person’s variety of foods are limited. For example, in 2002, there was a Scurvy