Nutrition and Health

1. Nutrition and Health A Global Concern

3. 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

4. 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

5. 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)

6. 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

7. Statistics • 6,000,000,000 • 8,000,000,000 • 140,000 • 365,000 • 840,000,000

8. 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)

9. Health Problems Related to Hunger • Who suffers the most in societies where hunger is widespread? • Children and pregnant women • How is it perpetuated?

10. The Hunger Cycle

11. 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.

12. United Nations Report on the Nutritional Status in Developing Countries • Undernutrition • Malnutrition • Vitamin A deficiency • Iodine deficiency • Iron deficiency • Zinc deficiency

13. Why should anyone care? • Political: situations in one country affects other countries due to global interdependence, political unrest & • Economic • Humanitarian • Compassion

14. Primary Causes of Hunger 7 Causes of Hunger

15. National Solutions

16. 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

17. Foreign aid is the most effective way to end hunger • Everyone wants to end hunger • Hungry people are too ignorant to change