Sometimes, not everything is either black or white. Sometimes there are more problems that arise that you could not have possibly prepared for. Well you may not actually know this, but we are much closer to being able to provide life saving treatment for every severely malnourished child in the world. This is thanks to some heavy treated milk. It saved lives of thousands children so far. One drawback is that this milk can only be safely given by doctors and nurses inside a proctored hospital setting. Because many of these people live in remote areas, they would have to travel very long distances in order to receive treatment. Many people didn’t even make it there on time. More often then not, there are so many people; they cannot all possibly fit into the one hospital. Due to the lack of space, it was very easy for infections to spread between the patients making them even sicker. But then, something changed. A recent development in Therapeutic foods made it even easier for people with no previous access to safe food to be able to eat safely. These foods do not need to be stored anywhere special, they don’t even need to be heated or need any water to be added to them. Mother’s can now pick up foods from their local heath centers and feed their children at home. Now we can treat more children then ever before. All children deserve bright and healthy futures.
One in Nine people do not get enough nutrition to live an active and healthy life. Hunger and malnutrition are a greater risk to world health then Aids, malaria, and tuberculosis combined. (WFP 2015) Sub-Saharan Africa is the region of the world with the highest percentage of the population who suffer of hunger. One in four people is undernourished. Because many people lack knowledge upon world hunger, here are five hunger myths. 1.) There isn’t enough food to feed the world. The world produces more then enough food, but the issue is not lack of food, it is people not being able to afford what is available in their local markets. That is why 920 Million people go to bed hungry every night (Ruters 2015). 2.) Men are the most producers of food. As a matter of fact most developing countries it is women rather then men who produce the bulk of food. However women are more likely to be hungry then men. Due to cultural restrictions, men and boys get to eat first then girls get to eat what is left over. 3.) Famine is caused by natural disasters It is not drought or floods that cause famine it is people. Famine develops slowly with plenty of warning signs. Because many governmental officials show no interest or importance upon the issue, it only gets worse. 4.) Most of the world’s famines happen in Africa Of the 10 Worst famines that happened in the 20th Century, none of them occurred in Africa. 5.) Hunger Exists only in poor countries. Although most of the people who are hungry live in developing countries, real groups of people live in “ the land of plenty.” About 1 in 7 Americans cannot get the nutrition they need (Ruters 2015). That is about 49 Million Americans who do not get enough to eat, do not get anything to eat, or have cut portions. "Hunger | WFP | United Nations World Food Programme - Fighting Hunger Worldwide." Hunger | WFP | United Nations World Food Programme - Fighting Hunger Worldwide. World Food Programme, 2015. Web. 28 Oct. 2015.
About 40 years ago the US secretary of State Henry Kissinger made a very strong promise that in a decade no child will go to bed hungry. That goal is more distant then it has ever been. According to a post by DW it is completely possible. The world produces enough food to feed everyone. It is merely a question of priorities. Because a consumer has a stronger voice on the political impact of food production, many other aspects such as food wastage is deemed less important. Sadly enough, many of people who actually produce the food go hungry. People who live on smaller farms are the hungriest. So why is the food being wasted? Many food producers don't actually have to worry about the cost of production. As a matter of fact, many producers rarely take into account how much needs to be produced vs how much is actually produced. Food producers in developing countries can only dream of this kind of system. Hunger is a toleration of social exclusions and boundaries. Famine is only partially caused by natural disasters and catastrophes. Because of some of the selfishness of developed countries and the fact that many food producers don't actually have to worry about the cost of production, food production for developing countries cannot even dream to compete. As a matter of fact, many producers rarely take into account how much needs to be produced vs how much is actually produced. Hunger is a toleration of social exclusions and boundaries. Allowing World Hunger is allowing the political stability in developing and developed countries alike to be jeopardized. Over 9 million people die worldwide due to hunger, 5 million of which are children (WFP 2015).
So how does being malnourished effect a child over time?Malnutrition isn't usually a subject brought up in headlines or important topics like famine does, but not having the proper nutrients can be just as deadly. Hunger isn't just a stomach thing. It effects every part of the body, and these effects can last for a lifetime. For instance, a healthy brain uses 20 percent of the body's energy and that energy, and that energy comes from food. When a child is hungry the brain is starved. The result? Malnourished children fall behind in school because they can’t concentrate. Then, there is the heart. The heart pumps a steady supply of blood through the body. But the heart of a hungry child shrinks, so I t has to work extra hard to pump blood. Vital organs like the liver and kidneys filter out toxins and waste while the immune system fights out infections. When a child is malnourished dangerous toxins build up in the liver, kidneys fail, and a weakened immune system crumbles in the face of killer diseases. Skin and bones are also affected by nutrition. Your skin is like armor shielding the body from infection. Healthy bones grow bigger and stronger as a child grows. But when a child is malnourished, their skin cracks allowing infections to get in. Their bones stop growing which is often why malnourished children are smaller for their age. https://www.wfp.org/
https://www.wfp.org/stories/8-must-see-videos-hunger-and-nutrition " There are people in the world so hungry, that God cannot appear to them, unless it is in the form of bread." |
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s3337cj4sJQ | I remember, not to long ago, I watched a video that one of my Facebook friends shared on her page. I cannot put to words how terrible I felt after watching the video. The content of this video broke my heart. It was about a small village in Haiti who are so food scarce that they've actually learned to eat mud. MUD! The elderly women in the village prepare these little cookies, if you can even call them that, out of very fine mud that they let sit in water for a few days. After a few days of the mud sitting in the water, they remove the fine mud and let it air dry in the sun in shapes of bread or cookies. |
Geophagy has become a norm for human consumption...
I've always heard about people's desire to end world hunger. All these activist groups and celebrities running charities, but I've always wondered what it really takes to end world hunger, and why do some people even go hungry? Is it really as simple as if you're in poverty you are food insecure, or somehow someway do other factors weigh into why some people have so much while others struggle to even find some crumbs?
I want to further my knowledge on why this is happening in the world. Is world hunger a terrible symptom of world poverty?
Therefore my Line of Inquiry for this topic is Why doesn't the malnourished countries and the "Countries who have it all" adjust their income to share with all? Why can't other countries help out? Does this cause the other countries to become food insecure as well? Why does food insecurity target specific countries and is food insecurity actually caused by natural disasters?
By researching this topic I hope to understand world hunger and also to inform some of my fellow classmates and college students about this problem. This is an issue i would like people of all ages to focus on as well.
Some of the preconceived ideas I have about this topic is that America, and other large and in charge countries, somewhat hog most of the food and keep it here to ourselves. America is one of the fattest countries on the planet.... Obesity is on the raise here. We have so much food here that we actually waste it.
<p>Anup Shah, <a href="http://www.globalissues.org/issue/6/world-hunger-and-poverty">World Hunger and Poverty</a>, <cite>Global Issues</cite>, Updated: August 22, 2010</p>
http://www.cagle.com/2013/09/hunger-and-iphones/
I want to further my knowledge on why this is happening in the world. Is world hunger a terrible symptom of world poverty?
Therefore my Line of Inquiry for this topic is Why doesn't the malnourished countries and the "Countries who have it all" adjust their income to share with all? Why can't other countries help out? Does this cause the other countries to become food insecure as well? Why does food insecurity target specific countries and is food insecurity actually caused by natural disasters?
By researching this topic I hope to understand world hunger and also to inform some of my fellow classmates and college students about this problem. This is an issue i would like people of all ages to focus on as well.
Some of the preconceived ideas I have about this topic is that America, and other large and in charge countries, somewhat hog most of the food and keep it here to ourselves. America is one of the fattest countries on the planet.... Obesity is on the raise here. We have so much food here that we actually waste it.
<p>Anup Shah, <a href="http://www.globalissues.org/issue/6/world-hunger-and-poverty">World Hunger and Poverty</a>, <cite>Global Issues</cite>, Updated: August 22, 2010</p>
http://www.cagle.com/2013/09/hunger-and-iphones/
I always love this part, getting to write about me. I never really know where to start with this, but here it goes. My name is Nouha Djebli and I currently attend the University of North Carolina at Charlotte as a Sophomore. If you were to ask me what college I was to attend 3 years ago, I would have never said UNCC. I am currently a Pre-Nursing Major, but becoming a nurse is always something I have always wanted to do. I enjoy putting other people at ease.
On Friday, June 13, 1997 I was born in the snowy ice capped Rocky Mountains of Colorado. I lived amongst the most beautiful natural sites I have ever seen. Being it the floura and fauna, or the grand rapid Colorado River, I cannot shake the feeling of nostalgia I have when I remember my childhood. I moved to Denver, which is the biggest city in Colorado, and thats when I found my second love. I fell in love with the idea of living in a big city with new sights and sounds. The fact that I met people from countries I have never heard of before amazed me. I lived in Denver for about six years, then we made the biggest move ever. I moved to Charlotte, North Carolina.
I still remember how heart broken I felt when my father told me the news. I couldn't believe it, I would have to leave everything and everyone I loved behind. But then in July of 2010, We crossed the country to come here. Living in Colorado, I had only heard stories about what it was like to live in the South, and North Carolina isn't really considered south...
Everything was different, and I honestly did not like it. As time went by, I started to love Charlotte more and more.
On Friday, June 13, 1997 I was born in the snowy ice capped Rocky Mountains of Colorado. I lived amongst the most beautiful natural sites I have ever seen. Being it the floura and fauna, or the grand rapid Colorado River, I cannot shake the feeling of nostalgia I have when I remember my childhood. I moved to Denver, which is the biggest city in Colorado, and thats when I found my second love. I fell in love with the idea of living in a big city with new sights and sounds. The fact that I met people from countries I have never heard of before amazed me. I lived in Denver for about six years, then we made the biggest move ever. I moved to Charlotte, North Carolina.
I still remember how heart broken I felt when my father told me the news. I couldn't believe it, I would have to leave everything and everyone I loved behind. But then in July of 2010, We crossed the country to come here. Living in Colorado, I had only heard stories about what it was like to live in the South, and North Carolina isn't really considered south...
Everything was different, and I honestly did not like it. As time went by, I started to love Charlotte more and more.
"Hell is empty, all the Devils are here."
Recently in the news they released some photos of a Syrian child, about two or three years old, who had drowned attempting to escape his country in search of refugee in Turkey. This sparked my interested because I hadn't known about these people and how much they are suffering due to their corrupt government and the evil terrorist groups who want to take over.
By researching this topic, I hope to further my understanding as to why this may be going on. Being someone who is studying nursing and strongly supports peace corporations, I do not understand why someone would want to inflict so much pain upon fellow people from their own country, but maybe thats what goes on in the mind of Dictators.
By researching this topic, I hope to further my understanding as to why this may be going on. Being someone who is studying nursing and strongly supports peace corporations, I do not understand why someone would want to inflict so much pain upon fellow people from their own country, but maybe thats what goes on in the mind of Dictators.
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