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The effect of malnutrition can be obesity. Malnutrition does not imply a shortage of food. I would rather say that capitalism causes inequality, mainly income inequality but also wealth, among others. This causes unhealthy eating patterns.
It is cheaper to eat unhealthy than healthy in most countries that have no food scarcity, which means that much of the working class basically eats the scraps of the rich. As an additional consequence of the capitalist mode of (over)production, there are in the same countries a lot of eating disorders, in big part due to the pressure of commercial advertisements.