Guatemal A Country And Poor Country

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

Hunger is considered huge issue in the United States. When it comes to managing food sources, it is easy to get predications from children based on their immediate experiences of food rather than parental reports that rely mostly on the economic value such as mother, households etc.… because such predications for instance, cannot be more accurate as children express their felling just in daily basis. In the published article at San Diego State University on February 20.2017, "Children Are Aware of Food Insecurity and Take Responsibility for Managing Food Resources’’. Farm et al made extensive research about this important topic, and wrote surveys addressing their reports after the information they collected from the

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Like any country, there are a variety of health concerns. About 50 percent of the children are malnourished-phsycially and mentally. When people experience malnourishment, often times it can stunt people’s growth as such a young age. Some illnesses are heart disease, kidney damage, and anemia, which can lead into adulthood.

A large problem of childhood poverty is malnutrition. Since these children are growing up in poverty, many of the parents have a hard time supplying food for their kids. Surprisingly, there

Hunger has stalked Venezuela for years. But now, it is killing children at an alarming rate. Hospitals are overflowing with malnourished children. Before the Venezuelan economy collapsed, most malnourished children were in hospitals because of abuse from parents. But as the crisis started to intensify, the children in hospitals were there because of starvation. In 2011, there were severe floods in Colombia causing many people to lose their home and food. Colombia has tried to make floating houses Incase of another flood, but they never finished the project. This is one of the many factors of how malnutrition started in Colombia.

In 2011, 20.6% of households with children in the U.S. have experienced food insecurity and it has been associated with negative health and development outcomes including more frequent common illnesses, iron-deficiency anemia, overweight or obese status, increased likelihood of hospitalization, increase risk of developmental delays, and lower physical and psychosocial functioning (DeMartini, Beck, Kahn & Klein, 2013, p. 1182).

Foods and their nutrients are essential to life. In the beginning years of life an infant’s nutritional health depends on the family unit. Parents must have knowledge of the changing food needs of the child and must also have sufficient resources to provide food, shelter, and clothing for the family. Equally important, parents create the cultural and psychological environment that influences the

In the article, it states “UNICEF estimates that 161 million children have stunted development because of poor nutrition, UNICEF executive director Tony Lake said.” (Leger, USA Today). The statement I found the most interesting and valuable to supporting my third main point is “A child’s development during the first 1,000 days is critical to intellect, future health and ability to earn a living and contribute to a country’s development, Sri Mulyani Indrawati, managing director and chief operating officer, World Bank Group said.” (Leger, USA Today). I also found another article titled Early Childhood Nutrition Crucial to Child Growth Byline: Mookodi Makhaya, Africa News Service From Opposing Viewpoints in Context. In this article, it states “Mr Ramono said in an interview that children must be given a variety of nutrients, which aided development of both their physical and mental strengths.” (Makhaya, Africa News Service). The evidence I provided from those two articles supports my third main point by proving how good and poor nutrition affects a child's health and abilities to become productive

Likewise, neonatal mortality rate is much higher Nicaragua at 9.1 per 1,000 birth whereas in Canada the number is 3.2 (WHO, 2017). An addi-tional fact is that the lack of proper nutrition as a result of poverty is stunting the growth of young children in Nicaragua (WHO, 2017). Not surprising, the number children under 5 years who are stunted is 25.2 (WHO, 2017).Hence, strategies need to be deployed towards reducing poverty and inequalities in Nicaragua.

Traditionally, complementary foods in the form of liquids and semisolids are fed to children and later replaced by foods eaten by older family members. Most of the time these types of foods can be filling and yet not meet children’s nutrient needs. Nutritional status in children is most vulnerable during the weaning stages when both macro and micronutrients may be insufficient to maintain growth and development (Annan and Plahar, 1995). Adoption of recommended breastfeeding and complementary feeding practices and access to the appropriate quality and quantity of foods are essential components of optimal nutrition for infants and young children (Lutter and Rivera, 2003). Complementary feeding period is the time when malnutrition starts in many

“Good nutrition, particularly in the first three years of life, is important for establishing a good foundation that has implications for a child’s future.”(Feeding America) When children are first starting to growing until adulthood there is a lot of specific nutrition that they should be getting at different ages.

Guatemala faces some of the highest rates of child malnutrition in the world. Guatemala’s President in 2012, Otto Pérez Molina, introduced the “Zero Hunger Pact.” This was a plan “to fight chronic hunger, reduce child chronic malnutrition by 10% and to prevent and mitigate seasonal hunger, preventing deaths caused by acute malnutrition.”

Food security is currently one of the most urgent and critical issues in Guatemala, especially within children and indigenous people living in the rural highlands. Being one of the most malnourished countries in the world, half of all children under the age of five in Guatemala are malnourished and rates grow to 67% among indigenous children. Guatemala faces a myriad of health and nutrition obstacles which Sustain Our Home is hoping to alleviate.

Through a tube formed at the belly button, a fetus receives all the nutrients and supplements it needs from its mother. In a perfect world, it would make sense that pregnant mothers have easy access to the nutrient rich foods and prenatal vitamins they need to make sure the development of their baby would be near perfect. For some women, that is not the case. There is an outstanding number of women who do not have the tools they need to be able to have a healthy diet while pregnant with their children and this status carries over to after the child is born. Food security has different meanings in different situations and contexts, based on location in the world. The definition being used for this paper is the running definition being used is “continual, reliable access to safe nutritious and culturally appropriate food that provides a foundation for the pursuit of one’s full human potential” (Hinrichsen, 2016). A lack of these vital nutrients and low food security has some negative effects on the cognitive development of children all over the world. These children are the future of the world, if this problem isn’t fixed there will still be an increasing number of malnourished, pregnant women. The cognitive development in the first 1000 days of their life will be hindered greatly and the effects it could have on their lives later are just as detrimental. Food insecurity is an issue that needs to be fixed immediately across the globe, otherwise we could lose out on some of