They are simultaneously over- and underfed: too many calories, not enough micronutrients.

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The underpaid, underfed Russian army is certainly a huge problem, but its soldiers have shown themselves to be generally wary of becoming embroiled in politics.

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Most defence analysts think North Korea, with its economy on the brink of collapse and much of its population underfed, is incapable of a sustained attack.

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He was convicted of causing a unnecessary suffering to one cow, which was found collapsed and underfed in a field by inspectors and had to be put down.

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The country has not suffered a famine since independence (because spectacular distress makes headlines, and relieving it wins votes), but many of its citizens are still chronically underfed.

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The state's people are dismally poor, uneducated, underfed and unhealthy.

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The most reliable measure of malnourishment reports from health workers, who weigh all the infants in their care each month suggests that only 12m, or 7% of the population, are underfed.

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Patty was looking a mess, gray-faced, poorly slept, underfed.

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Rite Aid (nyse: RAD - news - people), then with 85, 000 employees and 3, 800 stores in 30 states, had a liquidity crisis, shareholder suits, underfed stores and fed-up suppliers.

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Philadelphia (CNN) -- Four adults imprisoned in a dark Philadelphia boiler room, beaten and underfed, were confined like zoo animals, federal prosecutors said Wednesday in announcing a 196-count indictment against their alleged captors.

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