Exam 20: Hunger and the Global Environment

Individuals who have limited or uncertain access to foods of sufficient quality or quantity to sustain a healthy and active life with reduced quality of life with little or no indication of reduced food intake have ____________________.

As you sit in the waiting room of a doctor's office leafing through a magazine, you see a letter to the editor about world hunger. In it, the author takes issue with a statement made in a previous issue that stated, "…and thus, hunger worsens poverty...." The letter writer claims that this statement is completely unfounded and has no reasoning behind it. Does hunger worsen poverty?

MATCHING -Number of pounds of grain needed to produce one pound of beef weight gain

Individuals who have access to enough food to sustain a healthy and active life with one or two indications of food-access problems but with little or no change in food intake have ____________________.

You are reading a case study from a researcher at World University. The researcher has traveled to the largest city in India and is reporting on an illness present in a 15-month-old boy. The researcher describes the child as extremely thin and bony, with wrinkled skin and enlarged fatty liver. For the past year, this child has subsisted almost entirely on diluted cereal drink. Your first thought is that most of these observations are characteristic of marasmus, but then you realize that ____ is more consistent with kawashikor.

What is meant by a person's "food footprint," and how is it determined?

List 3 ways the food industry could substantially reduce fossil fuel use and still remain sustainable.

MATCHING -Number of children, in millions, under age 5 with vitamin A deficiency

Discuss the effects of water misuse in agricultural production.

Define the subcategories of food security and food insecurity.

MATCHING -Number of barrels of oil, in millions, wasted as a result of food waste

The word "marasmus" means

MATCHING -Oxygen-depleted areas of bodies of water in which marine life cannot survive

In kwashiorkor, the loss of hair color is indirectly related to

MATCHING -Intermittent hunger caused by lack of money

MATCHING -Produced in large quantities by cows

At the end of your class presentation on "Acute Malnutrition," a student asks you to clarify how the rapid onset of malnutrition occurs in kwashiorkor. How should you respond?

How does population growth contribute directly and indirectly to hunger?

How much more grain is consumed by livestock than by people?

Discuss the advantages of obtaining foods grown locally versus globally.