Human needs and wants are very different. Human needs are items you'll need for survival like water, food, shelter and social independence. But wants are different. Say your hungry, you need meat. But you want a sugary candy bar. Or if your thirsty, you need water but you want a Coke. See how it works?

Most kids are spoiled. They get to eat 2-3 meals everyday. But other kids like in Africa or in other poor countries, their kids will be lucky to have one meal before bed. Most of thier kids go to bed hungry and its not because they got in trouble. This is reality people! Because of hunger, kids are having a hard time learning and functioning. Food and water helps alot. You can only live 50 days without food, but only 4 days without water.

Without food comes with alot of health problems, and most of them get malnutrition. With picky eaters or kids that starve often don't get the nutrients they need. Protien- energy malnutrition (from meat and other sources). The other type of malnutrition is just as important is called micronutrient. Micronutrient is all about vitamins and minerals. Even though micronutrient is important, it doesn't get discuss in World Hunger discussions. This even talks about the U.S. The United States pays a little over $90 billion on hunger related charitys. That means on average, the U.S. residents pay $300 anually for this hunger bill. Then in 2008 the economic change that erupted caused a dramatic increase in hunger in the United States. Its still conuting in 2010.

Malnutrition is the cause in more than half of all child deaths world wide. Now a little over 183 million chidren are weighing less than they should for their age. Because of that, someone doesn't get enough of one specific nutrient which has a nutritional definincy. Also known as malnutrition. Now the children are even dying because of dehydration. The malnurished kids usually lack their strength when they need to survive a really severe case!

Do you know what causes World Hunger? Poverty! Families in low classes don't have resources to buy or to grow the food they need. With the war going on and the armed conflict it disrupts the argiculteral production. The government puts more money on the war that any socail programs. This makes it harder for the poor nations to feed themselves. Discrimination, people with lack of education, and employment and sometimes it results to racial, gender or ethnic discrimination. Last but not least is the lack of drout. Chronic hunger is most likely caused by powerlessness! People that doesn't protect thier intrest are the ones who usually are the most hungry.

So many people or countires I should say have low food insecurity. Very low food insecurity means, during the year the food intake of households were reduced and their eating patterns were distrupted because of the households lack of money and all the other recourse to food.

But I do have some good news for you. We can end this hunger. You can do something little but it will still make a big difference and help out alot in this world. What we could do is pick a day and volunteer somewhere. Soup kitchens are good for volunteering. Even for the people in your community. You can make food donations and send it to a family who may actually need it. Go through your pantry and get the items that you'll never use. So many ways, we just have to start somewhere. Why not start now?

 www.wfp.org/hunger

 www.worldhunger.org

www.globalissues.org

www.thp.org

www.freedomfromhunger.org