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A simple example for you.
When you are ill with a bad fever/flu. It feels magic to drink lucozade. It gets you feeling better faster than anything else. Your body has no energy to digest food as it is using so much resources to fight the virus.
When people are ill in hospital they are often hooked up to a drip containing dextrose.
When you are weak and ill you need energy and ideally in the simplest form (sugar). You do need complicated medical treatment for this.
Also being well fed in the first place reduces significantly your chance of getting ill in the first place. Eating well provides basic energy aswell as protein, vitamins & minerals. You do not even need a varied diet if you eat enough of what you have. Such as bread, cheese and meat which europeans wouldve had.
But when you have both limited volume in a diet combined with limited variety of food types. You are fucked in both energy and macronutrients. making you very very susceptible to disease.