On this post, I'm going to share the reading progress of the book I have introduced on October 26, 2023.
The other type of hunger is what is so called a "malnutrition". Malnutrition means one is lacking some sort of essential nutrition in their diet. To make it more understandable, you are simply suffering from undernutrition if you are not eating enough. But let's say you are only eating rice until your stomach is full. You may have enough calories for the day but you would get sick very soon because you can not cover every nutrition that is essential to your body just by eating a huge bowl of rice. And that's malnutrition.
The most important thing to note in the first few chapters of the book was the definition of hunger. The first thing that we imagine when we hear the word "hunger" is probably the image of barely fed children in Africa. While that is definitely considered as hunger caused by undernutrition, the author of the book claims that undernutrition is not only the type of hunger.
The other type of hunger is what is so called a "malnutrition". Malnutrition means one is lacking some sort of essential nutrition in their diet. To make it more understandable, you are simply suffering from undernutrition if you are not eating enough. But let's say you are only eating rice until your stomach is full. You may have enough calories for the day but you would get sick very soon because you can not cover every nutrition that is essential to your body just by eating a huge bowl of rice. And that's malnutrition.
This means, ― while it may sound confusing without the explanation I have just provided ― undernutrition is a type of a malnutrition, but they're not the same thing, and both are types of hunger.
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