WORLD HUNGER

WORLD HUNGER
This year, nearly 9 million children will die due to
illnesses caused by starvation
More than 1.4 billion people currently live below
the international poverty line
Many people have trouble obtaining adequate,
nutritious food for themselves and their families

HOW TO HELP
Make food donations
Switch to urban farming
Contribute financially
Spread the word
Spread your knowledge of birth control

NUTRITIONIST
The job of the nutritionist was to define hunger and the three
stages of starvation
Hunger is a feeling of discomfort or weakness caused by a lack of food
A human can go more than three weeks without food, but not
water
People normally feel the pangs of hunger 12-24 hours after their last meal
There are three phases to starvation:
First phase: Blood glucose levels are maintained through the
production of glucose
Second phase: Fats become primary energy source
Third phase: Proteins become major energy source
The average child (age 2-3) needs 1,400 calories a day
Undernourishment having insufficient food or other substance for
the body to survive
Malnutrition is not eating enough nutritional foods
Acute Starvation: Seen when the necessary food has been
suddenly and completely withheld
Chronic Starvation: The emaciation is more marked and death may occur
after a prolonged period due to disease

PATHOLOGIST
Identify diseases due to malnutrition:
Iron deficiency, which can cause anemia
Vitamin A deficiency, which can cause blindness in
children
Vitamin B-1 deficiency, which results in weight loss
and fatigue
Kwashiorkor Disease:

A life threatening and debilitating form of malnutrition

Caused by a lack of protein in the diet
Easily treated
People who suffer from this disease have an extremely thin
appearance

INVESTIGATOR
Identify a country in a hunger crisis
ETHIOPIA (In Africa)
Formal education is composed of six years of elementary school,
two years of junior elementary, and four years of senior
secondary. An average class size is 65 students per teacher, and
few school supplies are available to each student
Houses are built of mud or mortar and have thatched or tin
roofs
Language: Amharic
When formal education started in Ethiopia during the fourth
century, Christianity was the recognized religion. For about
1,500 years the church controlled all education

ETHIOPIA
As many as 81% of all cases of child undernutrition
and its related pathologies go untreated.
44% of the health costs associated with
undernutrition occur before the child turns 1 year-old
28% of all child mortality in Ethiopia is associated
with undernutrition.
Child mortality associated with undernutrition has
reduced Ethiopias workforce by 8%
https://www.wfp.org/stories/10-things-everyoneshould-know-about-hunger-ethiopia

SOCIALIST
Identify economic factors contributing to world hunger
Hunger is normally where income is low due to the ways
production and distribution of food is organized
Hunger effects people who are poor and homeless, those who
have suffered from natural disasters, and mainly people in
poorer countries
Hunger is caused by people who live in poverty and cant
afford nutritious food, the lack of agricultural infrastructure,
natural disasters, and war.
Hunger affects 795 million people