The Nutrition And The Millennium Development Goals

Despite the vast research on nutrition and health, malnutrition is still a major fatality in this present day. Policymakers, social scientist and medical experts have expressed alarm about the growing problem. While most agree that the issue deserves attention, consensus dissolves around how to respond and resolve the problem. Malnourishment continues to be a primary health liability in developing nations such as Asia, sub-Saharan Africa and Latin America. It is globally the most significant risk factor for illness and death, predominantly with hundreds of millions of pregnant women

MDGs are millennium developmental goals. The UN adopted the SDGs; SDGs are sustainable developmental goals in 2016. Some of the goals were to get rid of extreme hunger and poverty by 2015. The other goals were to end hunger, achieve food security, and improve nutrition, and promote sustainable agriculture. They hope to reach these goals by 2030.

The first article 4 ways to end hunger in Africa from CNN explains almost 800 million do not have enough food to eat daily in Africa. This reason lead Africa to put greater emphasis on agriculture and supporting their farmers. They achieved to a remarkable goal in cutting the malnourish in half since the 1990. The United States has raised it efforts in the commitment to ending global hunger, poverty, and child malnutrition because of all the

(a) Good nutrition culminates in good health which means ‘a state of complete social as well as mental well-being and not merely absence of infirmity or disease”. Though health and nutrition are not synonymous, the best health condition cannot be achieved without good nutrition. (b) poverty and under-nutrition have detrimental effect on work capacity. Improvement from poverty and under-nutrition (i.e. good nutrition) obviously will have a positive effect and will enhance work capacity. A direct nutrition supplements may have a tell-tale impact on reducing under-nutrition than an increase in income which is not so obvious but indirect. (c) the gains which are achieved from reducing both protein-energy malnutrition and micronutrient deficiencies can result in cost reduction (say, by reducing the costs linked to mortality and morbity) and result in enhanced productivity.

Today all over the world,there are people who haven’t eaten in days,weeks,and maybe even months.Many food organizations are working to fix it,but the countless number of Africans who live homeless.”In 2012, 501 million people, or 47% of the population of sub-Saharan Africa, lived on $1.90 a day or less, a principal factor in causing widespread hunger.” World hunger has been a problem for a long time now. I feel it can be stopped by donations farming and many more food related things.

World hunger is one of the worst problem we have in the world today, which is consisted of 928 billion people. Hunger is a painful situation caused by the want of food, or craving appetite. Hunger is an unfair problem that a lot of our population suffer from. In this paper I will justify the meaning of world hunger.

According to the Millennium Development Goals Report 2015 by United Nations, over 800 million people still live in extreme poverty, surviving on less than $1.90 a day. Over 160 million children under age five years old face growth deficits due to malnutrition (“Millions”) 2015 UNICEF monitoring also indicates that the estimate of mortality for a child under five is 5.9 million, and nearly half of the deaths are reported to link to malnutrition (“Under”). The World Bank Group, The United Nations, UNICEF, WHO, WFP, USAID, and other major international organizations have been striving to provide better living conditions to those in severe circumstances; however, experts predict that there still much

The mission of the U.S. Department of State is “to shape and sustain a peaceful, prosperous, just and democratic world and foster conditions for stability and progress for the benefit of the American people and people everywhere” (U.S. Department of State 2016). Food security is a problem that plagues much of the developing world. The U.S. government’s global hunger and food security initiative “Feed the Future” (FTF) aims to put an end to global hunger by giving people the tools they need in order to feed themselves. Feed the Future works in nineteen different nations across the globe but does not include Nigeria, Somalia, South Sudan or Yemen. According to the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA),

My aim was to find out whether organisations that work towards ending world hunger and the undernourishment of children have enough support and awareness to reach their goals. My primary resource is a survey that was conducted in my community. My secondary resource include the World Vision official website, the United Nations World Food Program website, and several other websites.

Today, there are several ongoing activities and programs that are specifically geared towards combating child malnutrition across the planet; programs which

The MDG has provided the world with better ways to meet human needs and requirements of economic transformation, while protecting human rights, ensuring peace, and realizing human rights. Along with the many accomplishments that the MDG has achieved so far I think the two achievements that are most striking are, the amount of people that have gained access to piped drinking water, 2.3 billion in 1990 and increased to 4.2 billion in 2015. The MDG has allowed countries to have access to improved sanitation and drinking water. Another achievement that stood out to me in the overview is that in Northern Africa pregnant women received four or more antenatal visits, which increased from 50 percent to 89 percent between 1990 and 2014. This is drastic

Our happiness and our lives are in our hands and every effort to stay active counts. Obesity is a real problem as the number of obese people worldwide doubled since 1980. WHO is one of the organisations developing strategies that will help people make healthy choices. It analyses the impact that globalization and socioeconomic transition have on

As we have seen for decades, world hunger has been a chilling epidemic affecting over 925 million people, but it has little to do with food shortages. (“World Hunger Facts”, Page 1) By definition, world hunger is the want or scarcity of food in a country (Page 1). Undernourishment affects people’s health, productivity, sense of hope, and overall well being in a negative manner. The lack of food can stunt growth, slow thinking, sap energy, hinder fetal development and contribute to mental retardation. (Page 1) Undernourished pregnant women die during birth, 315,000 mothers a year. More than half of the deaths in children in 2010 were caused by poor nutrition. That’s 3.8 million children. This year around 6 million children will die from starvation. ("Forks Over Knives | Animal Agriculture, Hunger, and How to Feed a Growing Global Population: Part One of Two.", Page 1) These statistics are unbelievable considering that the world produces one and a half

Public health Nutrition (PHN) is the promotion and maintenance of nutrition related to health and well-being of populations via the organised efforts and informed choices of society (Hughes et al, 2012). Public health nutrition focuses on solving nutrition related problems, however focusing on developing interventions in the population; it also draws upon the principles of health promotion (Caraher and Coveney, 2004). Landman, Buttriss and Margetts (1998) outlines public health nutrition in focusing on the promotion of good health via nutrition and primary interventions. The importance lies on the maintenance of wellness in the whole population. Overall it strives to improve optimum nutritional health of all individuals as well as vulnerable groups within the population. Public health nutrition uses numerous strategies to spread and influence the community, there are three levels of intervention, firstly the primary intervention, this reduces or removes the risk factors of the occurring diseases, secondary strategy is to stop or slow the disease progressing further, followed by the tertiary strategy which involves managing or rehabilitation with the individuals with health conditions and to improve the quality of life (Psaltopoulou, llias and Alevizaki 2010).

It is well recognized that household food insecurity is one of the three underlying causes of malnutrition. At the international conference of nutrition (ICN) held in Rome in 1992, food security was defined in its most basic form as physical, social and economic access by all people at all times to sufficient, safe and nutritious food which meets their dietary needs and food preference for an active and healthy life. Thus, food insecurity exists when people lack access to sufficient amount of safe and nutritious food, therefore not consuming the food required for normal growth and development, for an active and healthy life. This may be due to the unavailability of food insufficient purchasing power, inappropriate distribution, or inadequate utilization at household level. Food insecurity, poor conditions of health and sanitation and inappropriate social and care environment are the major causes of poor nutritional status. (WHO 1995) department of Nutrition for health and Development (NHD).