poor nutrition
collocation in Englishmeaningsofpoorandnutrition
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poor
adjective
uk/pɔːr/us/pʊr/
having little money and/or ...
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nutrition
noun[U]
uk/njuːˈtrɪʃ.ən/us/nuːˈtrɪʃ.ən/
the substances that you take into your body as food and the way that they influence ...
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(Definition ofpoorandnutritionfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
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Sedentary lifestyles,poornutritionand obesity are recognized as significant risk factors contributing to the increase in non-communicable disease.
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Then as now, overcrowded conditions andpoornutritioncan increase the risk of developing the illness.
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The process is also an aid to managing polypharmacy, highlightingpoornutritionand recognizing social problems that may interfere with treatment.
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These studies will hopefully focus on how factors such aspoornutrition, stress, or lack of a stimulating environment lead to developmental difficulties.
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Pregnant women would therefore suffer more severely than men frompoornutritionin bad harvest years.
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In these cases,poornutritiondue to poor absorption of dietary intake was a clue to the diagnosis.
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The stresses (cold, ethanol,poornutrition) are relevant to field conditions.
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The implications of these findings are that at least part of the deficit in the development of stunted children is due topoornutrition.
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It is known that malnutrition has an effect on ovulation and thatpoornutritionmight augment the effect of suckling in the induction of amenorrhoea.
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The loss of infants throughpoornutritionwould be one factor influencing the length of birth spacing.
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For example, suppose that poverty systematically produced predisposing biological variables as a result of, say, poor prenatal care andpoornutrition.
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The injury may also have unmasked previously unrecognized problems such as depression,poornutritionor inadequate heating of the home.
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Thus, the 'discarding' of fat may represent a cost in terms ofpoornutritionrather than increased land use.
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Factors that may be of even greater importance are the effects ofpoornutrition, multiple pathology and polypharmacy on their response to infection, and the effectiveness of their immune systems.
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Homelessness in old age is particularly pernicious, as people's physical defences in the face of deplorable living conditions andpoornutritionare likely to be weak.
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Poornutritionand associated smoking habits contribute to the risks of fracture.
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They maintain that while age, economic status andpoornutritionaffect the outcome, pregnancy anaemia is not related and is simply associated with other risk factors.
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Food shortages appeared, along with neurological diseases related topoornutrition.$!
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