For example, in Scottish hospitals it is now becoming mandatory to screen patients for malnutrition, he said.
Not enough is being done to screen for malnutrition in the community.
He immediately took her to a vet to be treated for severe malnutrition.
World leaders attending that summit must "face this crisis and tackle the scourge of malnutrition for good", said Ms Whitbread.
The crisis is causing massive malnutrition and displacement for hundreds of thousands of Syrians.
Ezra Susser, an epidemiologist at Columbia, realised that a famine experienced by the Dutch at the end of the second world war had created an ideal set of subjects for a study of maternal malnutrition and filial psychopathology.
He was honored in 1972 with a Pulitzer Prize for his work in Vietnam, he was the personal photographer for President Gerald Ford, and in 1997 was one of the few Americans to enter North Korea, capturing on film the desolate conditions that threatened malnutrition and starvation for millions in the country.
The charity said tackling malnutrition should be a priority for G8 leaders.
Malnutrition is normally seen as a problem for the developing world, but Rick Wilson argues that here in Britain this costly and demoralising condition has been neglected for too long.
For the majority of Japanese, the norm for centuries was grinding poverty, disease and incipient malnutrition until the post-war reconstruction, kick-started by the allied occupation, began to work its magic.
Where Progresa operates, more children have registered for school, more people are visiting their medics, and malnutrition is down.
People suffering from malnutrition are more vulnerable to infection, take longer for their wounds to heal or to recover from illness, have weaker muscles and may become depressed.
But in this week's Scrubbing Up, Katherine Murphy of the Patients Association calls for more action to help the millions in the UK whose malnutrition is "unnoticed, unheard and unsupported".
They contrast the rapid recovery in the U.S. from the effects of Hurricane Sandy with the disastrous consequences from the same storm for Haiti, where up to 2 million people may face malnutrition after crops were washed away.
But at least, points out Miss Brett, if 18 becomes the legal minimum, then even allowing for the difficulty of telling a child's age in places where malnutrition may make him look younger than he is or hard labour make him older 13- and 14-year-olds are less likely to end up clutching Kalashnikovs.
But the government's main effort to tackle child malnutrition, the Integrated Childhood Development Service (ICDS), has failed for rather different reasons.
"For millions of Somalis, already weakened by chronic food insecurity and persistently high levels of acute malnutrition, the shocks were catastrophic, " said the report.
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It is no exaggeration to say that under certain plausible scenarios widespread hunger and malnutrition if not areas of actual starvation could ensue, with ominous implications for the domestic rule of law and international stability.
It is no exaggeration to say that under certain plausible scenarios widespread hunger and malnutrition -- if not areas of actual starvation -- could ensue, with ominous implications for the domestic rule of law and international stability.
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