You cited the lexical definition. Good. You can read.
Starvation also has a stipulated definition that involves the process of starving to death. Rickets is easily avoidable if you feed a child what we know to be a well balanced diet.
But it looks like you spent the day rebuilding your little straw man. I hope you didn't get any splinters. Maybe you didn't know what you were doing, so I'll explain it for you.
This issue has nothing to do with the parents wanting a healthy diet for their child. There are alternatives to the commonly accepted healthy diet (the four food groups, ever hear of them?). Veganism is a quasi-religious devotion, it is a moral choice, not a health choice when an entire community is formed around it.
But you chose instead to trot out the old, tired drone about obese American children. Well, Rennes, the issue wasn't obese American children until you erected that little straw child. You then began to pick that straw child apart by saying that the parents of the ‘starving’ child were perhaps ‘misguided,’ that they just wanted a healthy diet for their child. Well, you are wrong. They were forcing their religion on a child, most likely knowing they were going against the learning of centuries. And we can assume that they knew what they were doing, because to be a vegan requires a lot of research into what you eat.
You defended them by calling them ‘misguided,’ which is a defense of the moral-relativist Left.
I chastise them and believe they should be shamed just as those parents in Appalachia who force their children to play with rattle snakes based upon the line from scripture that says neither the serpent's bite nor fire will harm you if you have faith, who then say that the child must not have ‘had the spirit’ when they are bitten. Both types of adults are guilty of child abuse, if you ask me, and they both deserve to be shamed.
But hey, if you want to defend two parents who caused their little girl to have the skeletal degradation of an 80 year old, that's your ‘misguided’ understanding of what is happening with these diet fundamentalists.
“This issue has nothing to do with the parents wanting a healthy diet for their child. There are alternatives to the commonly accepted healthy diet (the four food groups, ever hear of them?).”
It is precisely the four food groups paradigm that has resulted in the obesity epidemic, and other degenerative conditions in the West. We have the best medical system in th world, it is oft pronounced. Unfortunatley, best here equates with technology, which does not produce health, it produces ex post facto health management. I won’t bother you with actuarial ansd epidemiological data; you can google that yourself and see our many dismal rankings.
I chastise and shame those parents who allow obesity in their children much more than I would those who attempt an alternative to the “commonly accepted healthy diet”. Those who aquiesce to medical and food orthodoxy do so mostly out of ignorance.
I liken them to the blind followers of Obama. They so want to believe what they hear, just as those parents that stock their fridges with Fruit Loops and Coca Cola believe they are providing food. It’s so much easier to choose the path of least resisitance, and avoid the risks of challenging the status quo.