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Muhammad Asad Ashraf, Muhammad Ahmad Afzal, Mariyam Ijaz, Amna Arshad, Muhammad Naeem Zafar, Syed Muhammad Ukkasha, Ibrahim Zahid.

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The food insecurity is rising high in the world. People cannot get proper nutrition because of financial problems and therefore become victim of malnutrition. Malnutrition causes many problems like non-communicable diseases (NCDs) which includes cardiovascular diseases (CVDs), Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), diabetes and many others. It not only affects the health of the person but also the economy of the country. It has a long-lasting and bad impact on the economy of the country and act as an economic and financial burden for the country. A part of countries Gross Domestic Product (GDP) has been used as healthcare expense which incurs because of the NCDs caused by malnutrition. If the condition remains to continue like this, then it will have a great effect on economy as the healthcare expense increases and on the health of people as well.

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