malnutrition is incorrectly written, and should be written as "malnutrition" being its meaning: Malnutrition is a disease caused by an improper, hypocaloric and low-protein diet. It can also be caused by malabsorption of nutrients as in celiac disease. It has influence on the social, psychiatric, or simply pathological factors. It occurs mainly among low-income individuals and mainly in children from underdeveloped countries. The difference between this and malnutrition in malnutrition there is a deficiency in the intake of calories and proteins, while malnutrition there is a deficiency, excess or imbalance intake of one or more nutrients that the body needs ( example: vitamins, iron, iodine, calories, among other ). In children a clinical picture of malnutrition can end in Kwashiorkor occurring protein in the diet failure or morass that brings as a result exaggerated weakness in the absence of a total caloric deficit diet. In children, malnutrition can begin even in the womb. The consequences of malnutrition are: short stature children, pale, thin, very sickly and weak, who have learning disabilities and intellectual development. More likely to be obese adults. Malnourished mothers give birth to malnourished children and those suffering from anemia or softening have more difficulties in childbirth with children from low peso.1 according to doctors without borders, 2 each year 3.5 to 5 million children under six years of age die from malnutrition