Food security: This expression means that every person in a given area has a daily access to enough nutritious food to have an active and healthy life.
Food insecurity: The opposite of the first one. There are not enough food supply or simply people have not the needed resources to access them.
Undernutrution | Malnutrition | Overnutrition |
Food consumed doesn't provide enough energy | Food has enpugh nergy but lacks nutrients, vitamins, proteins and minerals | Food consumes has an excess of energy than the one needed and used |
Basic Nutrients which cause malnutrition:
Vitamin A | Iodine | Iron |
Blindness and children become prone to infection | Afects metabolism processes and causes stunted growth and may lead to goiter | Anemia, fatigue , risks of infection and increases risk for hemorrhage in labor. |
Famine: A famine is a situation of severe shortage of food supply in an area accompanied by mass starvation, many deaths, economic chaos, and social disruption.
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