The article about elderly people who struggle to absorb nutrition?

> Of these deaths, 34.3% took place inside medical facilities, 30.2% inside nursing homes/long-term care facilities, and 25.6% inside the descendant’s home.

Is America is so broke that we can't feed people in hospitals and nursing homes? Obviously not. These are people whose bodies are shutting down due to told age, not people who are being neglected by society.

In an attempt to show that people are starving due to poverty, you've instead shown that we're expending many, many times the cost of feeding them in an attempt to keep them alive. No doubt you're incapable of admitting that this is directly contradictory to the spirit of your thesis.

At this point I can't help but conclude you're trolling, or the post linked here applies -- https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43693402

But for the record here's the breakdown of malnutrition related mortality (ICD codes E40-E46) by 5 year age blocks as reported by the CDC for 2023. First field is age range, 2nd field is total number of deaths attributed to ICD codes related to malnutrition:

  25-29 years, 17 
  30-34 years, 22
  35-39 years, 40
  40-44 years, 71
  45-49 years, 119
  50-54 years, 197
  55-59 years, 323
  60-64 years, 651
  65-69 years, 1112
  70-74 years, 1722
  75-79 years, 2507
  80-84 years, 3321
  85-89 years, 4147
  90-94 years, 4362
  95-99 years, 2821
  100+ years, 824
  Total 22284 

Anyone who wishes to repeat the query themselves or to look at other demographic aspects can do so at https://wonder.cdc.gov/ucd-icd10-expanded.html

ICD classifications aren't perfect but they are standardized. Here's the CDCs description of where this data comes from:

The Underlying Cause of Death database contains mortality and population counts for all U.S. counties. Data are based on death certificates for U.S. residents. Each death certificate identifies a single underlying cause of death and demographic data....