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What is the major reason for hunger in the U.S.?
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•Lack of financial resources/poverty
•Causes include: physical and mental illness, job loss, alcohol, drugs, and lack of awareness of food assistance programs |
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What can a SNAP debit card be used to purchase?
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•Food, food bearing plants, and seeds
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What is the “Feeding America” program?
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•Collects good food that would normally go to waste from restaurants, fields, commercial kitchens, grocery stores
•Coordinates distribution to food pantries, shelters and soup kitchens |
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Which nutrients are most commonly lacking in diets worldwide?
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•Iron, iodine, Vitamin A
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Approximately what number of children worldwide die each year of malnutrition and malnutrition-related causes?
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•7.6 million
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Understand the characteristics of acute vs chronic malnutrition
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•Acute PEM: recent food deprivation -Thin for their height (wasting)
•Chronic PEM: long term food deprivation -Short for their age (stunted) |
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What is the most likely reason that fatty liver develops in acute protein malnutrition? |
not able to synthesize the fat carriers - LDL/HDL |
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Understand the relationship of malnutrition and infections and related consequences. |
lace of antibodies to fight infection anemia heart failure death |
