Nutrition and Health

A Global Concern

Objectives

Define terms related to global hunger Explain the major causes of hunger Refute common misconceptions about

global hunger Discuss ways a nation’s hunger problem

might be solved Identify organizations that work to combat

hunger Propose ways individuals can fight hunger

Terms: The Hunger Problem

Developing nation: low economic level of living standards and industrial production

Hunger: weakened state caused by long term lack of adequate food

Undernutrition: eating too little food to maintain healthy body weight and normal activity levels

Malnutrition: poor nutrition from inadequate diet or condition that prevents the body from using nutrients effectively

Starvation: lack of food needed to sustain life

Famine: extreme scarcity of food for an extended period (years)

Food Security: access to food needed for a healthy life

Underweight: weight below a healthy range

Stunted – below average height and not catching up

Wasted – severe weight loss with destruction of body tissue

Statistics

6,000,000,000 8,000,000,000 140,000 365,000 840,000,000

Of the 49.1 million people living in food insecure households (up from 36.2 million in 2007), • 32.4 million are adults (14.4 percent of

all adults)• 16.7 million are children (22.5 percent of

all children). (FRAC)

Health Problems Related to Hunger

Who suffers the most in societies where hunger is widespread?

• Children and pregnant women

How is it perpetuated?

The Hunger Cycle2. Low Birthweight

baby –prone to disease and early

death

3. Babies don’t get nutrients and

immunity from breast milk due to

undernourished mother

4.Children endure inadequate diet,

5. Children show lack interest and learning due to malnutrition

6. Adults with poor health, no skills, lack

food for family

1.Pregnant mother eat inadequate diets

• 17.3 million people lived in households that were considered to have "very low food security,“

• Black (25.7 percent) and Hispanic (26.9 percent) households experienced food insecurity at far higher rates than the national average.

United Nations Report on the Nutritional Status in Developing Countries

Undernutrition Malnutrition Vitamin A deficiency Iodine deficiency Iron deficiency Zinc deficiency

Why should anyone care?

Political: situations in one country affects other countries due to global interdependence, political unrest &

Economic

Humanitarian

Compassion

Primary Causes of Hunger

7 Causes of Hunger

National Solutions

Global SolutionsTruths & Myths

People go hungry because there is not

enough food

Hunger exists where there are too many

people to feed

Produce more food using technology

Feed the hungry in poor countries

Foreign aid is the most effective way

to end hunger

Everyone wants to end hunger

Hungry people are too ignorant to

change