FOOD FOR ALL (FFA) is a non-profit organization which is dedicated to helping people fight hunger. Today; in the FOOD FOR ALL education goal, it will be discussed the topic of nutrition. In that topic; two major concepts need to be addressed: Under-nutrition and over-nutrition. It appears; in my view, that in developed countries, donors and politics are likely to allocate fund to over-nutrition than under-nutrition. That seems to be easily understandable since the most cases of under-nutrition is reported in developing countries, while in developed country that problem is almost over. In other side, Obesity is a real problem in those countries. Nevertheless, diseases associated with under-nutrition need to be taken into consideration. That said, I would like to highlight my view about allocating the fund to either under-nutrition or over-nutrition.

Under-nutrition and Over-nutrition are both some types of malnutrition. Under-nutrition occurs when people do not eat enough food; or they eat food which contain less balanced nutrients. Therefore, it appears that their needs in food are not satisfied; while in over-nutrition, people eat more food than they need; that’s been said, they receive more nutrients than they need. Those people are usually obese. According to Margaret Cunningham: “Under-nutrition occurs when a person consumes a diet that does not meet the necessary requirements for the amount of essential nutrients or calories a person needs to remain healthy; whereas over-nutrition occurs when a person consumes a diet that exceeds the necessary requirements for the amount of essential nutrients, or the amount of calories a person needs to remain healthy.” The problem I would like to address; is to allocate fund to either an under-nutrition or over-nutrition. Based on the definition and the context of both concepts; and knowing that under-nutrition usually occurs in poor and developing countries; while over-nutrition occurs in developed countries; therefore, I would allocate the fund to under-nutrition sector. I would choose that sector to allocate the fund since people who are suffering of under-nutrition are poor. They don’t have money to buy food. They are also fighting against other diseases associated with their under-nutrition problems. Among those people, I believe there are more children than adults. I also believe that by allocating the fund to under-nutrition sector, millions of lives in the world will be saved, mainly in poor countries which are in need. Even though over-nutrition is a real health problem, I am convinced that developed countries well take care of that situation. They have more money to deal with. About under-nutrition, UNICEF (2006) said: “When individuals are undernourished, they can no longer maintain natural bodily capacities, such as growth, resisting infections and recovering from disease, learning and physical work, and pregnancy and lactation in women. Poor feeding of infants and young children, especially the lack of optimal breastfeeding and responsive complementary feeding, along with such illness as diarrhea, pneumonia, malaria and HIV/AIDS, often exacerbated by helminths are the causes of under-nutrition. The second target of MDG 1 is to reduce the proportion of people who suffer from hunger by half between 1990 and 2015.” The above statement enforces my conception to allocate the fund to under-nutrition sector because I strongly believed that there are more problems at that level; but also, undernourished people are more likely in needs than over-nourished people in developed countries.
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Mohamed Elmahady CAMARA