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Malnutrition is not the same thing.

Drug addicts and alcoholics often are malnourished - not because food is withheld from them, but because they are more interested in drugs and alcohol than food. The same goes for seriously ill people.



As far as alcohol goes, it's also because it's toxic as hell and actively stopping your body from absorbing what it needs from food.




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