closely other reasons the poor across the world are so stricken with hunger. Many of the poor around the world are tenant farmers and do not own the land in which they work and live. These tenant farmers are many times paid

food for its own needs or to earn enough money to buy the food-or some combination of the two. Without this ability color the family hungry.”8 Malnutrition is the most common affect of hunger. Malnutrition is “a term indicating an impairment to physical and/or mental health resulting from failure to meet nutrient requirements. The insufficiency of nutrients may result from inadequate nutrient intake or from interference with the body’s ability to process and utilize nutrients.” Malnutrition causes many health conditions such as stunting of growth, tissue wasting, cognitive and behavioral deficits, or starvation. The lack of vitamin C that a hungry person does without can cause scurvy, loss of teeth, and a weakening of the immune system. Lack of iodine in ones diet can cause crippling or mental retardation. The lack of vitamin A in ones diet can cause blindness. In its worst cases, malnutrition leads to death, especially in children. “In Latin America and Caribbean, studies indicate that malnutrition is the primary cause of or major contributing factor in 60 percent of deaths of children under the age of five.” Malnutrition hits hardest on the children because they are still growing and developing immunities to disease and developing strong healthy bodies. For a malnourished child, common illnesses such as measles and diarrhea can lead to death. Seventy-five percent of the people that die from hunger every 3.6 seconds across the globe are children under the age of 5. Hunger affects adults as well by weakening their immune systems and making them weak suspecting them to sickness and disease, which will later lead to death. The solution to ending world hunger does not lie in money or any other one answer. There are many ideas and “solutions” being applied today, yet hunger remains. In terms of dollars the United States has been the world’s largest donor of foreign aid. The U.S. Marshall Plan of 1948 was the first government foreign-aid program. General George Marshall outlined the plan stating: “It is logical that the United States should do whatever it is able to do to assist in the return of normal economic health in the world…Our policy is d

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