1. World Hunger: Another Epidemic!
Unit 2
Food and You

3. What is HUNGER?
The uneasy or painful sensation caused by want of food; craving appetite.
Also the exhausted condition caused by want of food

4. Facts 150 million children suffer from malnutrition
Everyday 35,000 children die because they didn’t have enough to eat
Every year, 11 million children die from a lack of food.

5. At least ¾ of a billion people suffer from some form of malnutrition.
About 50,000 people die each day as a result of malnutrition.
800 million people know what it is like to go to bed hungry.
About 200 million children under the age of 5 are underweight.

6. Who suffers the most? Children Pregnant women Those who are ill
The elderly
Why?

7. Causes of World Food Problem
World Wide Problems
Natural catastrophes
Environmental Degradation
Food supply-and-demand imbalances
Inadequate food reserves
Warfare and civil disturbances
Declining ecological conditions in agriculture regions.

8. Causes of World Food Problem
Problems of the Developing World
Underdevelopment
Excessive population growth
Lack of nutrition knowledge
Insufficient government attention to the rural sector

9. What do you think?
Citizens in the Unite States make up 6% of the world’s population and consume 40% of the resources of the world.

12. The World Economy Game

13. Directions
1. Take five color chips, one of each color.

14. Directions
2. Stand up and go trade two chips for two chips with someone who does not sit at your table!
(Trade any color you choose!)

15. Directions
3. Trade three chips for three chips with someone else who does not sit at your table!
(Trade any color you choose!)

16. Directions
4. Trade one chip for one chip with someone else who does not sit at your table! (Trade any color you choose!)

17. Directions
4. Trade two chips for two chips with someone else who does not sit at your table!
(Trade any color you choose!)

18. Directions
5. Go sit down at your table and count up your team’s points…
But keep your PERSONAL chips to yourself!-- Do NOT combine them and mix together!!!!!

19. Values Yellow- 50 points Green- 25 points Red- 15 points
Chips and their value:
Yellow- 50 points
Green- 25 points
Red- 15 points
Pink- 10 points
Blue- 5 points
Combination Values
2 of a kind- 0 extra pts
3 of a kind- 5 extra pts
4 of a kind- 10 extra pts
5 of a kind- 20 extra pts

20. Top Scoring Team Make up new rules to the game.
What chips do you start out with?
Who can trade?
Be creative!