The Importance Of Nutrition In The United States

I have always been disheartened by seeing unnaturally thin children in cities that often are homeless and suffering from starvation. With proper nutrients lacking from their diet, kids suffering from starvation often have small physiques due to malnutrition. The most frustrating part is the simple fact that kids suffering from malnutrition are unable to attain proper food because they were born into poverty. Having an unfair disadvantage, children that come from poverty and have trouble consuming enough nutrients day to day fall behind their peers. Without my parents providing me without proper nutrition as a child, I probably would not be as tall and healthy looking as I am today. The importance of supplying children everywhere with proper …show more content…
Similarly, another important step in the solution is making sure mothers giving birth are properly nourished as well. Overall to prevent malnutrition throughout the world one problem must be eliminated also- world hunger. However, although the solutions to end malnutrition are easy to find, the process of carrying these solutions out are much more complex. The United States offers services such as food pantries and food stamps that allow people suffering from poverty to attain bare necessities of nutrition. However, being that the United States contains only a small fraction of the world’s malnourished people, the problem remains. Temporary solutions such as feeding the poverty stricken malnourished people every so often will hardly change the situation. The only way to provide lasting solutions are to either provide surplus amounts of nutritional foods regularly or teach malnourished people how to obtain nutrients. In order to accomplish either of these problem solving ideas volunteer service is a …show more content…
Because ending malnourishment would allow children to develop into healthy, successful adults, people everywhere would no longer feel anguish when seeing or hearing about children unable to be healthy due to unattainable nutrients lacking from their diet. Reduction or even elimination of malnutrition globally has the capability of providing significant beneficiary results to economies. Increasing productivity among the population, reducing malnutrition would lower health care expenses. Ten to fifteen percent is the range of renounced economic losses resulting from the malnourished population. With the ability to reduce malnutrition among people at reasonably low costs, making efforts to help revive those suffering from malnourishment would positively affect the economy (Gillespie, et