The health article from BBC news,"Poor nutrition 'stunting growth'", attracts my attention and make me feel interest.
The urgent problem nowadays is poor nutrition that happens among children in developing countries. The unicef points out the statistic that one third of under 5 year old children are dead because of lacking of food.The number of children who are underweight has increased for the reason that poor diet in younger age stops these children from growing.In addition, then stunted growth is not only the result from lacking of food, but also the result from poor quality of food. The unicef chief,Ann Veneman, gave her opinion that the problem will be more dangerous that it cause an illness and decrease the physical ability. So,the unicef suggests the way to solve this problem by "promoing breastfeeding"("Poor nutrition 'stunting growth'", 2009, Dangerous, ¶ 4)and "providing access to food supplements"("Poor nutrition 'stunting growth'", 2009, Dangerous, ¶ 5). Because of the unicef and its partner's progression in 150 countries, the number of underweight childdren in developing country has decreased by one sixth.However, only 63 out of 117 countries succeed in halving the problem.
Malnutrition does not mean solely that children don't have enough food.In spite of enough food, some people in rich countries have not enough nutrients that they will be no longer growth. Perhaps, they have a bad eating habit. For example, a boy eats dessert, which is full of carbohydrate and fat, without eating vegetable or fruit.So, this boy has a chance to be malnutrition. From this reason,the problem doesn't happen only in developing countries. People in developed countries may stop growing due to poor nutrition. As mentioned, stunting growth is not some countries' problem. So every countries should pay attention to their people, for the proportion of undernutrition people will become less than nowadays. The effective soluion of this problem is done by giving the education to people and supporting access nutritional supplement by the government and organization.
The urgent problem nowadays is poor nutrition that happens among children in developing countries. The unicef points out the statistic that one third of under 5 year old children are dead because of lacking of food.The number of children who are underweight has increased for the reason that poor diet in younger age stops these children from growing.In addition, then stunted growth is not only the result from lacking of food, but also the result from poor quality of food. The unicef chief,Ann Veneman, gave her opinion that the problem will be more dangerous that it cause an illness and decrease the physical ability. So,the unicef suggests the way to solve this problem by "promoing breastfeeding"("Poor nutrition 'stunting growth'", 2009, Dangerous, ¶ 4)and "providing access to food supplements"("Poor nutrition 'stunting growth'", 2009, Dangerous, ¶ 5). Because of the unicef and its partner's progression in 150 countries, the number of underweight childdren in developing country has decreased by one sixth.However, only 63 out of 117 countries succeed in halving the problem.
Malnutrition does not mean solely that children don't have enough food.In spite of enough food, some people in rich countries have not enough nutrients that they will be no longer growth. Perhaps, they have a bad eating habit. For example, a boy eats dessert, which is full of carbohydrate and fat, without eating vegetable or fruit.So, this boy has a chance to be malnutrition. From this reason,the problem doesn't happen only in developing countries. People in developed countries may stop growing due to poor nutrition. As mentioned, stunting growth is not some countries' problem. So every countries should pay attention to their people, for the proportion of undernutrition people will become less than nowadays. The effective soluion of this problem is done by giving the education to people and supporting access nutritional supplement by the government and organization.
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References
Poor nutrition 'stunting growth'. (2009, November 11).BBC News. Retrieved November 12,2009 from http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/health/8353594.stm
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