Might targeting malnutrition (not undernourishment!) be an important cause area?

Abstract

I recently (finally) started to hear some audiobooks about nutrition and recently I stumbled about a podcast directed at physicians (it´s in german… search for amboss podcast, “ernährung als medizin” = nutrition as medicine) with the medical director of “physicians association for nutrition” (www.pan-int.org -\textgreater great links there!) and he argued, that malnutrition (not undernourishment!) is way more detrimental to world health than tobacco, alcohol, lack of exercising etc. combined. And it sure costs a lot of money/ ressources… I was impressed. And I was a little bit offended by reality, because I quitted smoking, I´m not drinking, I get some exercise, … but my dietary habits haven´t been great for years…