According to the United States Department of Agriculture, there are two main types of food insecurity. These are low food insecurity and very low food insecurity, each of which have their own distinct affects on a population. Very low food insecurity has the damaging affects of undernutrition and starvation. Very low food insecurity is most common in both urban and rural areas. On the other hand, there are the affects of low food insecurity on the population. These include binge eating (eating a lot at one time), excessive consumption of high calorie foods, obesity, and type 2 diabetes. These affects are most prominently felt in urban areas with a high lack of access to food. All of the information above is according to ncbi.nlm.nih.gov. According to feedingamerica.org, 13 percent of households in the United States are food insecure. To make matters worse, 5 percent of households are very food insecure in the United States. With these statistics, and given the diseases that can come out of food insecurity, the outlooks of impoverished families are far from well. In the next few paragraphs I will discuss the affects of a lack of food availability both in the U.S and in other parts of the world as well.
Cardiometabolic disease is a serious risk factor that is a result from food insecurity and undernourishment. Cariometabolic disease is defined as a group of risk factors that can ultimately lead to type 2 diabetes and cardiovascular disease (according to ncbi.nlm.nih.gov). To prove just how serious cardiovascular disease is (which stems from cardiometabolic disease), in the U.S one person dies from it every 40 seconds. If that wasn't bad enough, just consider this. 1 out of 3 people in the U.S are affected by cardiovascular disease (according to hopkinsmedicine.org). In terms of type 2 diabetes in the U.S, (which also may result from low food insecurity), there are many people afflicted with it as well. According to healthline.com, "90% of the people around the world who have diabetes are afflicted with type 2". Of course, type 2 diabetes does not result from solely low food insecurity, but a multitude of other factors as well. For example, these include family history, obesity, and ethnicity background. The prevalence of these diseases both in the U.S and worldwide will only increase unless something is to be done about it.
If we're talking the other affects of low food security but not necessarily diseases, then this comprises affects such as malnutrition, undernutrition, and starvation. This is not to say that these "side" affects other than disease aren't important, but instead, they are equally harmful, if not more harmful than the diseases mentioned above. For example, globally, 2 billion people are malnourished (according to gainhealth.org). To put this into perspective, there are about 7.5 billion people on this Earth (as of May 2017). So, by doing the math, that is about 26% of people worldwide who are malnourished. What is even more concerning is that this number will only go up as the population increases in the future. I just wanted to touch on the other issue produced from low food security, despite not being a disease. This issue is over nutrition, which is just what it sound sounds like. It involves consuming an excessive amount of calories than what is normally needed every day. While this may not seem too harmful in the short-term, in the long term this can lead to obesity. What is also interesting is that over nutrition is more common in women than it is in men. According to a CBS News Report conducted in late 2015, 38% of women were obese while 34% of men were obese. Granted, while a 4% difference doesn't seem like much, it actually is. This means a difference of millions of people in the United States as a whole.
Cardiometabolic disease is a serious risk factor that is a result from food insecurity and undernourishment. Cariometabolic disease is defined as a group of risk factors that can ultimately lead to type 2 diabetes and cardiovascular disease (according to ncbi.nlm.nih.gov). To prove just how serious cardiovascular disease is (which stems from cardiometabolic disease), in the U.S one person dies from it every 40 seconds. If that wasn't bad enough, just consider this. 1 out of 3 people in the U.S are affected by cardiovascular disease (according to hopkinsmedicine.org). In terms of type 2 diabetes in the U.S, (which also may result from low food insecurity), there are many people afflicted with it as well. According to healthline.com, "90% of the people around the world who have diabetes are afflicted with type 2". Of course, type 2 diabetes does not result from solely low food insecurity, but a multitude of other factors as well. For example, these include family history, obesity, and ethnicity background. The prevalence of these diseases both in the U.S and worldwide will only increase unless something is to be done about it.
If we're talking the other affects of low food security but not necessarily diseases, then this comprises affects such as malnutrition, undernutrition, and starvation. This is not to say that these "side" affects other than disease aren't important, but instead, they are equally harmful, if not more harmful than the diseases mentioned above. For example, globally, 2 billion people are malnourished (according to gainhealth.org). To put this into perspective, there are about 7.5 billion people on this Earth (as of May 2017). So, by doing the math, that is about 26% of people worldwide who are malnourished. What is even more concerning is that this number will only go up as the population increases in the future. I just wanted to touch on the other issue produced from low food security, despite not being a disease. This issue is over nutrition, which is just what it sound sounds like. It involves consuming an excessive amount of calories than what is normally needed every day. While this may not seem too harmful in the short-term, in the long term this can lead to obesity. What is also interesting is that over nutrition is more common in women than it is in men. According to a CBS News Report conducted in late 2015, 38% of women were obese while 34% of men were obese. Granted, while a 4% difference doesn't seem like much, it actually is. This means a difference of millions of people in the United States as a whole.
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3357002/
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http://www.worldometers.info/world-population/
http://www.cbsnews.com/news/women-overtake-men-in-u-s-obesity-rates/