Kwashiorkor

Kwashiorkor is a major problem for developing and underdeveloped countries and keeps these kinds of countries from achieving to eradicating Extreme Poverty and Hunger. As my research question says, this essay is about one of The United Nations Millennium Development Goal-Eradicate Extreme Poverty and Hunger and a Malnutrition disease called Kwashiorkor. The essay will talk about how Kwashiorkor affects the Millennium Development Goal. Kwashiorkor is not a real problem in well developed countries like the U.S but still can occur if the child does not get a proper diet but this kind of Kwashiorkor is not dangerous and the child might recover in a few days after treatment. The major problem is developing or undeveloped countries like Angola where
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Kwashiorkor is a malnutrition disease caused by the deficiency of Proteins. Proteins are the building blocks of our bones, muscles, skin hair blood and literally every other part of our body. There are about/more than 10,000 different kinds of proteins that are in our body that power you (The Harvard School of Public Health). Proteins’ building blocks are amino acids and different amounts and different amino acids make up different kinds of proteins. Haemoglobin is made out of about 146 amino acids (Innovateus). Although there are so many not all of them are needed by the protein to make the protein function but although, small changes in the amino acids can make it inactive. Proteins can even be broken down into other proteins. Lack of Proteins is one kind of malnutrition. If right quality and quantities of proteins are not taken, it can lead to kwashiorkor. Kwashiorkor usually occurs in overpopulated developing countries and countries which are still undeveloped which are usually in
It not only affects a person physically, it also affects The Millennium Development Goals. The Millennium Development goals are setup by the United Nations in the September of 2000. These Goals are setup for developing and underdeveloped countries and are going to be followed until 2015. There are 8 goals and 20 targets within these 8 goals. The Goals are = “Eradicate Extreme Poverty and Hunger, Achieve Universal Primary Education, Promote Gender Equality and Empower Women, Reduce Child Mortality, Improve Maternal Health, Combat HIV/AIDS, Malaria and Other Diseases, Ensure Environmental Sustainability and Develop a Global Partnership for Development.” (United Nations.) Well how does kwashiorkor affect a country from achieving this MDG-Eradicating Extreme Poverty and Hunger? So first let’s say a person was poor and earned very little money and could not buy enough food for himself and his family, so they would not get the proteins their body needs, so the person becomes weak and stops working or does not go to work daily because of his sickness and now earns even less or no money so he cannot buy food and that pushes him down to extreme poverty, even this means his children cannot go to school because their weak even if the education is free. The kids would die eventually but even if they survive on the low amount of protein even the children when they grow up cannot work so they are also in extreme poverty. So this is a cycle and if the