“Malnutrition has three sides to it and often they coexist. It could be overnutrition, which is often obesity with type II diabetes. It may be undernutrition, which is usually due to lack of proteins among other things. Or it could be due to deficiency in multiple nutrients, which means minerals. We have to have policies and also prevention and treatment in place, which are able to tailor the requirements of the changing needs of individuals.”
—Dr. Sumantra Ray, Founding Chair and Executive Director of the NNEdPro Global Centre for Nutrition and Health, University of Cambridge, UK