Malnutrition Quotes:

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

- Walter Duranty

topic: Disease, Mortality, Starvation, Malnutrition

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

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

topic: Children, Educational, Birth Defects, Malnutrition, Health Problems

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

- Alex Comfort

topic: May, Realizing, Virtue, Malnutrition

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

topic: Children, Years, Doctors, Hunger Awareness, Malnutrition

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

topic: Strong, Agency, Priorities, Malnutrition, Social Welfare

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

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

topic: Country, Real, Healthy, Malnutrition, Human Dignity

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

- Catherine Bertini

topic: Food, Mean, Needs, Malnutrition, Obese

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

topic: Children, Years, People, Malnutrition, Diarrhea

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

topic: Real, Lasting Change, People, Malnutrition, Real Deep

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

topic: Children, World, Carnage, Malnutrition

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

topic: People, Needs, Roles, Malnutrition, World Hunger

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

topic: Children, Land, Suffering, Hunger And Poverty, Hunger For Food

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

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

topic: Morning, Children, Three, Malnutrition, Proper Nutrition

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

topic: People, Dying, Missionary, Malnutrition, Missionary Work

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

- Madeleine M. Kunin

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

topic: Keys, Obesity, Contradictory, Malnutrition

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

- Glenn Frey

source: Song: I've Got Mine

topic: Men, Soul, Politics, Malnutrition, Rich Man

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

- Nicholas D. Kristof

topic: Water, Dying, Malaria, Malnutrition

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

topic: Doctors, Years, Modeling, Malnutrition, Formative Years

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

topic: Drama, Exotic, Earth, Malnutrition, Exploitation

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

topic: Food, Suffering, Culture, Malnutrition, Despicable

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

topic: Spiritual, Hurtful, Body, Malnutrition, Nourishment

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

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

topic: Children, Real, Impact, Malnutrition, Brain Development

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

topic: Believe, Fighting, United States, Hunger And Poverty, Hunger Poverty

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

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

topic: School, Doctors, Skills, Malnutrition

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

topic: Science, Medicine, Goal, Malnutrition, Balanced Diet

It is also painful to see that the struggle against hunger and malnutrition is hindered by market priorities, the primacy of profit, which have reduced foodstuffs to a commodity like any other, subject to speculation, also of a financial nature, The hungry remain, at the street corner, and ask to be recognized as citizens, to receive a healthy diet. We ask for dignity, not for charity.

- Pope Francis

topic: Nature, Struggle, Priorities, Malnutrition, Primacy

It's a spiritual malnutrition tied to a moral constipation, where people have a sense of what's right and what's good. It's just stuck, and they can't get it out because there's too much greed. There's too much obsession with reputation and addiction to narrow conceptions of success.

- Cornel West

source: "Cornel West Reconsiders President Obama". "Talk of the Nation" with Tony Cox, www.npr.org. August 2, 2010.

topic: Spiritual, Addiction, People, Malnutrition, Constipation

So then man tortures and kills millions more animals to look for cures for these diseases. Elsewhere, millions of other human beings are being killed by hunger and malnutrition because food they could eat is being used to fatten domestic animals. Meanwhile, some people are dying of sad laughter at the absurdity of man, who kills so easily and so violently, and once a year, sends out cards praying for Peace on Earth.

- David C. Coates

topic: Laughter, Men, Animal, Malnutrition, Inspirational Animal

In the philanthropy game, you're going for different outcomes: saving childhood lives, having kids grow up - because they don't have malnutrition or disease - that they achieve their full potential. We take for Warren [Buffett] things that, because he's very intelligent about the world but doesn't get to go out in Africa and see what we see, we've taken and say to him where we stand and it's basically a very positive report that his gift has made a phenomenal difference.

- Bill Gates

source: Source: www.geekwire.com

topic: Malnutrition, Having Kids, Very Positive, Warren Buffet

New York is a place where the rich walk, the poor drive Cadillacs, and beggars die of malnutrition with thousands of dollars hidden in their mattresses.

- Duke Ellington

topic: New York, Dollars, Cadillacs, Malnutrition, Mattresses

For some roles, like when I was doing Bent, that was harder and I didn't find that helpful because I was so calorie deprived, my brain wasn't getting food. I would end up not being as focused or as clearheaded as I would have liked to be during the run of the performances. I would lose those quality impulses that you lean on when you're acting because of malnutrition. basically. But I looked skinny.

- Patrick Heusinger

topic: Running, Brain, Quality, Malnutrition

A lot of people in this country are obese because of a form of malnutrition. One thing I'd like to do is to help people understand the correlation between a steady diet of empty calories - though you may not experience hunger pangs, you can't really function well if all you're eating are things like ramen noodles, or chips, cookies, and sodas, things that are quite typically inexpensive and affordable because of the way we subsidize the ingredients that go into them.

- Lori Silverbush

topic: Country, People, May, Malnutrition, Noodles

We serve God by serving our fellow man; kids are suffering from malnutrition. People are going to the fields hungry. If you are a Christian, we are tired of being mistreated.

- Fannie Lou Hamer

topic: Christian, Tired, Kids, Malnutrition, Mistreated

When I travel around the world, I see that poor countries sell their grain to the West while their own children starve in their arms. And we feed it to livestock. So we can eat a steak? Am I the only one who sees this as a crime? Every morsel of meat we eat is slapping the tear-stained face of a starving child. When I look into her eyes, should I be silent? The Earth can produce enough for everyone’s need. But not enough for everyone’s greed.

- Philip Wollen

topic: Country, Children, Food, Malnutrition, Should I

When you see in places like Africa and parts of Asia abject poverty, hungry children and malnutrition around you, and you look at yourself as being people who have well being and comforts, I think it takes a very insensitive, tough person not to feel they need to do something.

- Ratan Tata

topic: Children, Thinking, People, Malnutrition, Tough Person

The benefits of medical research are real - but so are the potential horrors of genetic engineering and embryo manipulation. We devise heart transplants, but do little for the 15 million who die annually of malnutrition and related diseases. Our cleverness has grown prodigiously - but not our wisdom.

- Martin Ryle

source: Letter to Professor Carlos Chagas, February 24, 1983.

topic: Real, Heart, Engineering, Malnutrition, Medical Research

With climate change and health crises rightfully receiving international attention, the time has come to focus on hunger as a top priority. WHO regards hunger and malnutrition as the gravest threat to public health, and climate change threatens to further destabilise already fragile food-production systems.

- Josette Sheeran

source: "The Challenge of Hunger". The Lancet Article, www.thelancet.com. January 17, 2008.

topic: Focus, Priorities, Receiving, Malnutrition, Food Production

In a world where millions of human beings live in extreme poverty, die of malnutrition and lack medical care, where pandemics continue to kill, it is imperative to pursue good faith disarmament negotiations and to shift budgets away from weapons production, war-mongering, surveillance of private persons and devote available resources to address global challenges including humanitarian relief, environmental protection, climate change mitigation and adaptation, prevention of pandemics, and the development of a green economy.

- Alfred-Maurice de Zayas

source: "UN Expert Urges States to Cut Military Spending and Invest More in Human Development". www.ohchr.org. April 14, 2014.

topic: War, Challenges, Environmental, Malnutrition, Green Economy

They have a lot of trouble with pronunciation, because they can't move their jaw muscles, because of malnutrition caused by wisely refusing to eat English food, much of which was designed and manufactured in medieval times during the reign of King Walter the Mildly Disturbed.

- Dave Barry

source: Dave Barry (1994). “The World According to Dave Barry”, Outlet

topic: Funny, Kings, Humorous, Malnutrition, Pronunciation

It's a moral imperative, it's an economic imperative, and it is a security imperative. For we've seen how spikes in food prices can plunge millions into poverty, which, in turn, can spark riots that cost lives, and can lead to instability. And this danger will only grow if a surging global population isn't matched by surging food production. So reducing malnutrition and hunger around the world advances international peace and security - and that includes the national security of the United States.

- Barack Obama

topic: United States, Population, Cost, Malnutrition, Matched

I went to Ethiopia, and it dawned on me that you can tell a starving, malnourished person because they've got a bloated belly and a bald head. And I realized that if you come through any American airport and see businessmen running through with bloated bellies and bald heads, that's malnutrition, too.

- Dick Gregory

topic: Running, Airports, Romance, Malnutrition, Ethiopia

There is no question that global warming will have a significant impact on already existing problems such as malaria, malnutrition, and water shortages. But this doesn't mean the best way to solve them is to cut carbon emissions.

- Bjorn Lomborg

source: "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

topic: Mean, Cutting, Impact, Malnutrition, Carbon Dioxide Emissions

We have a moral concern to feed all of the hungry, wipe out malnutrition, so that every American be housed and every child have access to education.

- Jesse Jackson

source: Source: praisecharlotte.hellobeautiful.com

topic: Children, Wipe, Moral, Malnutrition, Access To Education

[I]t's an honor to be a food stamp president. Food stamps feed the hungry. Food stamps save the children. Food stamps help the farmer. Food stamps help the truck driver. Food stamps help the warehouse. Food stamps help the store. Food stamps hire people and feed people. Food stamps save people from starvation and malnutrition. ... Give President Barack Obama a big hand. Show your love. Show your appreciation.

- Jesse Jackson

topic: Appreciation, Children, Hands, Malnutrition, Warehouse

When women and men have approximately equal life expectancies, it seems to be because women die not only in childbirth (fewer than thought) but about equal from diseases; poor sanitation and water; inadequate healthcare; and diseases of malnutrition. In industrialized societies, early deaths are caused more by diseases triggered by stress, which breaks down the immune system. It is since stress has become the key factor that men have died so much sooner than women.

- Warren Farrell

source: Warren Farrell (1994). “The myth of male power: why men are the disposable sex”

topic: Stress, Men, Keys, Malnutrition, Life Expectancy

Many people are very, very concerned with the children in India, with the children in Africa where quite a number die, maybe of malnutrition, of hunger and so on, but millions are dying deliberately by the will of the mother. And this is what is the greatest destroyer of peace today. Because if a mother can kill her own child - what is left for me to kill you and you kill me -- there is nothing between.

- Mother Teresa

source: Mother Teresa (2010). “Where There Is Love, There Is God: A Path to Closer Union with God and Greater Love for Others”, p.97, Image

topic: Mother, Children, Numbers, Malnutrition

I am constantly astonished by the people, otherwise intelligent, who think that anything so complex and delicate as a marriage can be left to take care of itself. One sees them fussing about all sorts of lesser concerns, apparently unaware that side by side with them often in the same bed a human creature is perishing from lack of affection, of emotional malnutrition.

- Robertson Davies

source: "The Pleasures of Love". 1961.

topic: Intelligent, Emotional, Thinking, Malnutrition, Perishing

By ceasing to rear and kill animals for food, we can make so much extra food available for humans that, properly distributed, it would eliminate starvation and malnutrition from this planet. Animal Liberation is Human Liberation too.

- Peter Singer

topic: Animal, Planets, Liberation, Malnutrition, Animal Liberation

If we continue on the trend we're on, we can reduce extreme poverty by more than 60 percent-lifting more than 700 million people out of dollar-and-a-quarter a day poverty and back from the brink of hunger and malnutrition. But if we accelerate our progress from 3 percent annual reduction to over 6 percent and focus on key turnarounds in some difficult countries, we could get a 90 percent reduction. We could essentially eliminate dollar-and-a-quarter head count poverty.

- Rajiv Shah

source: Rajiv Shah's Remarks at The Aspen Institute, 2012-2017.usaid.gov. August 1, 2012.

topic: Country, Keys, People, Malnutrition, Extreme Poverty

If more people start selling ugly produce we have a chance to crack the hunger and malnutrition problems in the U.S. (Almost 90% of us do not get enough fruits and veggies).

- Dana Cowin

source: "How ugly food can end hunger". Interview with Lauren Lee-Johnson, edition.cnn.com. November 23, 2015.

topic: People, Cracks, Ugly, Malnutrition, Fruits And Veggies