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by zaphar 536 days ago
If you are starving you need both calories and nutrients. Missing either one of them means you will still be starving.
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You will survive significantly longer with plentiful calories and no nutrition than you can with very few calories but a "correct" nutrition profile.

Most of human history was lived by people with some amount of malnutrition. It's almost a default state of being alive. It's only since the broad cultivation of the Potato and after that, green revolution that allows us to grow enough food to technically feed everyone (and then throw half of it away because god forbid we help people survive rather than build a system that incentivizes dragon hording)