The Effects of World Hunger
For decades, world hunger has been a huge problem. Ironically, “the world produces enough food to feed all seven billion people”().So why is everyone not being fed? The answer to this question is “either people do not have the money to purchase food or the land to grow it.” World hunger is a huge problem in today’s world because it results in unnecessary death, triggers violence, and also affects the learning abilities of kids. Additionally, hunger is often forced upon undeveloped countries as a result from insufficient funds in a household.
Unnecessary death is a huge effect from world hunger. According to the United Nations, about 21,000 people die everyday from hunger or hunger- related causes. Often the ones that are affected the most are the kids. It is a continuing cycle; hungry people are trapped in areas where there are huge amounts of poverty. Many people begin to fall ill because of their inability to work because of the lack of nutrition, causing numerous deaths in the community. The diseases the cause deaths are usually, Guinea worm disease; caused by drinking dirty water; Cholera; a disease that infects the small intestine with bacteria; tapeworms; an infection of the stomach. The tapeworms eat the food before the body can digest it causing hunger all the time. Malnutrition is a lack of sufficient nutrients in the body. Malnutrition …show more content…
Infact, forty thousand children will starve to death between now and tomorrow morning (Andre and Velasquez 1). Sadly, some 795 million people in the world do not have enough food to live a healthy active life;0 that is one in nine people on Earth (Lancet 1). Adding to that, of the world's hungry people, the vast majority live in developing countries, where 13.5 percent of the population is undernourished ( Hunger statistics
For decades, world hunger has been a huge problem. Ironically, “the world produces enough food to feed all seven billion people”().So why is everyone not being fed? The answer to this question is “either people do not have the money to purchase food or the land to grow it.” World hunger is a huge problem in today’s world because it results in unnecessary death, triggers violence, and also affects the learning abilities of kids. Additionally, hunger is often forced upon undeveloped countries as a result from insufficient funds in a household.
Unnecessary death is a huge effect from world hunger. According to the United Nations, about 21,000 people die everyday from hunger or hunger- related causes. Often the ones that are affected the most are the kids. It is a continuing cycle; hungry people are trapped in areas where there are huge amounts of poverty. Many people begin to fall ill because of their inability to work because of the lack of nutrition, causing numerous deaths in the community. The diseases the cause deaths are usually, Guinea worm disease; caused by drinking dirty water; Cholera; a disease that infects the small intestine with bacteria; tapeworms; an infection of the stomach. The tapeworms eat the food before the body can digest it causing hunger all the time. Malnutrition is a lack of sufficient nutrients in the body. Malnutrition …show more content…
Infact, forty thousand children will starve to death between now and tomorrow morning (Andre and Velasquez 1). Sadly, some 795 million people in the world do not have enough food to live a healthy active life;0 that is one in nine people on Earth (Lancet 1). Adding to that, of the world's hungry people, the vast majority live in developing countries, where 13.5 percent of the population is undernourished ( Hunger statistics