Hunger In America Essay

There are many people in America who are food insecure. Food insecure is a term meaning that you don't know where your next meal is coming from or how you'll pay for it. In South Carolina there were 807,960 food insecure people in 2012. Being hungry can have many different effects in people. Many if these effects are life changing. Three ways that hunger can effect us are academically, it can induce diseases, and finally it can kill you. Because of hunger, many children are affected academically. Children who experience hunger at a young age are more likely to do poor academically or repeat a grade. One effect is that a hungry child has less of an ability to focus and study. Hunger also delays development in the cognitive, social, and emotional
Some of these disabilities are related to the brain. One result of vitamin A deficiency is blindness. Another disease is scurvy with is caused by a human not having enough vitamin C. Many other diseases may occur if you can't get the vitamins you need out of food.Obesity is also linked to hunger because it’s often unhealthy foods that are affordable. In addition to academics and health being effected by hunger, people can also die if they don’t have enough food. You can only survive fir so long without food. An average person can only survive for about 40 days without food. Depending on weight you can last longer or shorter than the 40 day expectancy. About 21,000 people die of hunger each day. Most of these deaths are children. Poor nutrition cases nearly half of the deaths in children under five worldwide. Based on this information, I estimated that around 7.5 million people die of hunger each year. In conclusion, hunger effects people academically, it affects our health, and it can cause death. Hunger is a serious issue and it effects 48.1 million Americans each year. 17 millions of these 48.1 million Americans are children. Often, we can't tell who may be hungry. You can help by donating to food bank’s and being aware of