Malnutrition- There are
three forms of malnutrition. Protein-calorie malnutrition occurs when a person doesn’t
consume enough food to enable them to grow normally. This can cause various
illness, severe weight loss and death. Stunting is when you don’t grow normally
due to server end chronic malnutrition. Wasting is when a child’s age and stage
of development because of malnutrition.
According to UNICEF,
2011 Figure 5.9 stunting in children under 5 occur more frequently than in
North America. The worst is in south Asia, stunting in children under 5 occur
almost fifty percent of the time. North America is less than 5 percent and the
lowest number besides North America is Latin America/ Caribbean which occurs
less than fifteen percent of the time.
This topic is
meaningful to me because, although I was never malnutrition or deprived of food
in any manner. I have one memory as a child that I have never forgotten. I ate
breakfast at school every morning because my mother worked before I had to be
to school. My father woke us up late one morning and by the time I got to school
breakfast was over. I cried half the morning and I didn’t feel better until I
ate lunch. That one experience taught me to have empathy for children who don’t
have enough to eat. One of the reasons children who don’t get enough to eat
have trouble in school because they can focus on school work due to the hunger
pains amongst other factors.
This will impact my
future work because I will make sure every child I educate has something to eat
everyday. If a child comes to school hungry I will make sure they have
breakfast or some sort of snack to hold them over until lunch time
