Extra Nutrition Taking More Lives Than Hunger
As per world's biggest humanitarian organization IFRC, approximately one billion individuals all over the world get into bed hungry each night, but it is "unnecessary nutrition", which takes more lives.
World Disasters Report-2011 by International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies said that about one billion people are malnourished whilst a shocking 1.5 billion individuals are obese, comprising an escalating figure in low and middle income nations.
While releasing the report Jagan Chapagain, IFRC Asia Pacific director, stated that surplus nutrition takes lives of 2.4 million yearly, which is more than starvation.
"The number of obese is increasing in India and China, home to nearly half the world's hungry people, other south east Asian countries. One of the reasons is increasing FDI and over-dependency on ready made or fast food," he said but maintained that there is no country specific data on the matter.
The IFRC indicates that National Food Security Bill will not alone be enough to eradicate hunger from the country and suggested a holistic approach to secure livelihood for poor and adequate food grains fabrication for attaining the goal.
Mihoko Tamamura, World Food Programme director (India), stated that food alone will not be the result and the administration needs to plan for offering livelihood to deprived families and create additional food in sustainable manner.
Yes! I agree with the latest published report. Diabetes and obesity is now becoming a global threat. And India has become the capital of diabetes. So let’s save two lives, one those who are dying because of under nutrition and other who are dying because of over nutrition.
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