Malnutrition occurs when a person receives an excess or deficiency of food energy or nutrient intake or an imbalance of nutrients

Malnutrition occurs when a person reveibes a defiency of food this leads to less energy produce by the cells of the body because they don t get enough nutrients to form (anabolism) and replace old or unusable things in the body and don t have glucose lipids proteins to brake down (catabolism) for the forming of the Atp the primary source of energy.