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Food is a vital part of everyone’s lives. It gives us the power and nutrients to Produce and develop, be healthy and energetic, to move, job, have fun, think and study. The body needs a multiplicity of the following 5 nutrients protein, carbohydrate, fat, vitamins and reserves from the food we eat to stay strong and productive. Protein is needed to build, preserve and revamp muscle, blood, skin and bones and other tissues and organs in the body. Foods rich in protein contain meat, eggs, dairy and fish. Carbohydrate provides the body with its main groundwork of energy. Carbohydrates can be private into two kinds; starches and sugars. Food rich in starches include rice, maize, wheat and potatoes and food rich in sugars include fruit, honey, sweets and chocolate bars. Fat this is the body's secondary starting leave of energy. Fat in reality provides more energy/calories per gram than any other nutrient, but is more difficult to burn. Food rich in fats are oils, butter, lard, milk, cheese and some meat. Vitamins and Minerals Vitamins and reserves are needed in very small amount and are sometimes called micro nutrients, but are essential for good health. They direct many functions and processes in the body, and in the case of minerals also help build body tissue such as bones (calcium) and blood.

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Precise vitamins and minerals see the Vitamins and Minerals in sequence sheet below. In addition to the over nutrients Fiber and Water are also indispensable for a good healthy diet. A impartial Diet To stay healthy we not only need all of the higher than 5 nutrients in our diet but we also need them in the correct quantities this is what we mean by a unbiased diet. The cost of not having a impartial diet are numerous: if you do not eat sufficient protein, you will not be able to cultivate correctly; if you do not eat enough energy containing foods carbohydrates and fat), you will feel very tired; and if you eat too much energy containing foods you will develop into overweight. Many people in the residential world eat too much of some types of food, for example a lot of saturated fats, and become overweight. Obesity is becoming a big problem in the developed world. One third of all Americans are obese. Being obese has serious health implications including increasing your chances of heart disease, diabetes, high blood pressure, having a stroke or getting a number of forms of cancer. In the developing globe, on the other hand, many people go through from: Hunger, or under nutrition, whereby they do not have enough food or Malnutrition, which means ‘badly nourished’ and is as much about what you eat as how much. Malnutrition is characterized by inadequate intake of protein, energy and/or micro nutrients and by frequent infection and disease.FoodAid is a great opportunity for you all to learn more about these issues and to help the hungry and malnourished overseas.

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Amounts, hence they are occasionally called micro nutrients, but are essential for good health. They control many functions and processes in the body, and in the case of minerals also help build body tissue such as bones (calcium) and blood (iron)the important vitamins are: vitamin A; the B vitamins including thiamine, niacin and foliage; vitamin C and vitamin D. Vitamin A helps to prevent infections, is essential to keeping the eyes healthy and helps children cultivate right. Food rich in vitamin A enclose: carroty and yellow fruit and vegetables together with mangoes, carrots, sweet potatoes and pumpkins; dark green vegetables for example spinach; liver and eggs.

B Vitamins including Thiamine, Niacin and foliage help the body burn nutrients to release energy and for building and repairing the body’s tissues. source of B vitamins contain: dark green vegetable; white meat, hen and fish; liver; milk and eggs. Vitamin C helps the body to absorb iron and to use nutrients to build bones and blood vessels. Most fruit, especially citrus fruit and many vegetables in concert with potatoes are good sources of vitamin C. Vitamin D helps the body absorb and use calcium to build well bones and teeth. Vitamin D is originate in fish oils, eggs, milk, cheese and liver and is also produced by the body when the skin is exposed to daylight. The important minerals contain iron, calcium, iodine and zinc. Iron is needed to make red blood cells, which are indispensable for getting oxygen from the lungs to all the other parts of the body and also helps all of the body’s cells working appropriately. The best sources of iron are meat, fish, liver and other organ meats and dark green flourishing vegetables. Calcium is needed for well bones and teeth. Milk and other dairy products are the best source of calcium. Iodine is needed for proper development and development of the brain and nervous system. Iodine comes from the soil, so the amount of iodine in food depends on how much iodine there is in the soil. Soils low in iodine is found mainly in upland, precipitous areas and in places where there are common floods.

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What Is Hunger the world produces enough food for everyone. Yet every 5 seconds a child dies of undernourishment or starvation and over 800 million people still go to bed hungry. Quick Hunger Facts The world produce enough food for everyone. Yet there are over 800 million starved people in the earth. Every 5 seconds a child dies of hunger or related causes. Chronic hunger takes the lives of 24,000 people each day. 10.9 million Children under the age of 5 die in mounting countries each year. Malnutrition and hunger related diseases cause over 60% of these deathsWhat are Hunger, Malnutrition and FoodSecurity? Hunger is a condition in which people lack the basic food intake to provide them with the energy and nutrients for fully productive lives. There are two main types of hunger: acute and chronic. Acute hunger occurs suddenly and is life threatening if intense treatment is not administered immediately. It is often caused by emergency situations such as conflict or natural disasters and dramatic images of acute hunger are often highlighted on TV screens during these times. However acute hunger account for just eight percent of the world’s hunger problem. Continual hunger can occur gradually and last generations or reoccur seasonally. It is a less visible form of hunger but affects many more people. Chronic hunger is much more than living on significantly less than the recommended calorie intake for weeks or even months, being underweight and having an empty stomach.

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Lack of energy results in the body and mind slowing down, resulting in a hungry child experiencing Lack of energy to do things, play and learn Apathy whereby the child is less interested in the world around heiress resistance to disease as their immune system weakens Acute or chronic hunger can lead to malnutrition. Malnutrition means ‘badly nourished’ and is as much about what you eat as how much. Malnutrition is characterized by inadequate intake of protein, energy and/or micro nutrients and by frequent infection and disease. To learn more about different forms of malnutrition see the ‘What is Malnutrition’ fact sheet. Food Security is when everyone has at all times access to and control over adequate quantities of good quality food for an active healthy life. Humanizing food security for chronically hungry people overseas is central to a number of Concern’s food related programmers overseas. Where are the Hungry? As you can see from the World Hunger Map hunger exists all over the world. However the majority of undernourished people lives in the developing world and earns less than $1 a day. Over 314 million of the world’s hungry live in South Asia this is more than the people of Australia and the USA. Sub-Saharan Africa also has a huge number of hungry people, with over 30% of the populace being undernourished. The majority of hungry people in these countries are children under the age of 5. What causes Hunger?