How to Get Rid of Malnutrition?

[Jenkem]

So we ran out of snow bunnies on the polar ice caps and its been about 5 days sence the last meal. Finally we get plenty of food from traders but the malnutrition penalty won't go down.
Do I have to wait longer or is it a glitch?

[ErgoProxy]

it takes a good while to leave

[IxianMace]

Malnutrition operates in a similar fashion to diseases and infections. When you gain immunity to a disease or infection, you've still got the condition and your body needs to slowly recover from it.

Likewise, if you've been malnourished for some time, just because you've eaten a meal and are no longer hungry, that doesn't mean that your body is immediately back to how it was before you started starving. The body has to absorb nutrition from the food and slowly recover until it's at full health again.

Check the malnutrition status once every day or so. The malnutrition stat ticks down in blocks rather than continuously like heatstroke or hypothermia.