Her legs looked like those of a malnourished child.

In the study the compared two different methods of long term care for the malnourished children.

Put another way, 40 percent of all the world's malnourished children are Indian.

Meanwhile, malnourished African children die every day, according to world food activists.

The act was also a matter of national security: malnourished children grow up to make poor soldiers.

"We cannot hope for a healthy future with a large number of malnourished children," he said.

"A malnourished and poor child will never have a positive outcome in the school"

Recently, it has started to provide special care and rehabilitation to malnourished children.

Their aid focuses on malnourished children, women, and the elderly.

Among those are at least 180,000 malnourished children and 900,000 war widows.