Exam 20: Hunger and the Global Environment

As the newly appointed director of International Supplementation for the World Health Organization (WHO), you propose supplementing the diets of malnourished populations worldwide with nutrients that would markedly improve health and well-being. Which of the following nutrients is most likely to be deficient?

Compared to vegetarian diets, meat based diets use ____ times as much water.

What fraction of the U.S. population receives food assistance of some kind?

What is aquaculture?

The famine Somalia is currently experiencing has left an estimated ____ people starving.

What is the nutritional advantage of eating range-fed buffalo?

Discuss how biodiversity is changing and how this affects food production.

List and discuss the causes of hunger in the United States. What population groups are most vulnerable?

Malnutrition caused by recent severe food restriction; characterized in children by underweight for height (wasting) is called ____________________ malnutrition.

What percentage of the world's population is at risk of zinc deficiency?

Worldwide, approximately what number of children under 5 die each year of malnutrition and malnutrition-related causes?

Which of the following is among the ingredients of a common oral rehydration formula?

What is a food desert?

What percentage of the world's children under the age of 5 have short stature for their age?

What is the chief reason why people living in poverty and hunger in the developing world bear numerous children?

A period of extreme food shortage resulting in widespread starvation and death is best termed

How many people in the United States live in poverty?

In kwashiorkor, what mineral is often present in an unbound form that promotes bacterial growth?

MATCHING -Extreme scarcity of food

Deficiency in which of the following is associated with irreversible intellectual disability?