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<p>In medicine, <b>wasting</b>, also known as <b>wasting syndrome</b>, refers to the process by which a debilitating <a href="page.php?w=disease">disease</a> causes <a href="page.php?w=muscle">muscle</a> and <a href="page.php?w=fat">fat</a> <a href="page.php?w=biological_tissue">tissue</a> to "waste" away. Wasting is sometimes referred to as "acute malnutrition" because it is believed that episodes of wasting have a short duration, in contrast to <a href="page.php?w=stunted_growth">stunting</a>, which is regarded as chronic malnutrition. An estimated</p><p>
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