What is the difference between stravation and malnourishment?

Answer 1

Malnutrition comes from a lack of adequate intake of food/calories. Poverty or inability to cook can cause Malnutrition.

Malnourishment comes from an inability to absorb ingested nutrients. Malabsorption causes malnourishment.

Answer 2

Nutrition is the category of foods, supplements, and minerals that make your body healthy and keep it that way. Basically it's what keeps you alive.

Malnutrition is a state of being rather than a substance or element. It means that your body does not have enough nutrients to keep it going for long.

Answer 3

Starvation is when a person does not eat enough, and malnourished is when a person does not get enough of a certain vitamin, mineral, or another nutrient. Starvation can often lead to being malnourished, however, since not eating enough can lead to not getting enough nutrients.

Answer 4

Hunger is the desire or need for food whereas malnutrition is lacking the right balance and types of food to remain healthy.

So: hunger=lack of food
malnutrition= food available, but not a good nutritional balance.

Starving children are suffering from hunger, but most Americans are suffering from malnutrition.