Why are there still hungry people?

Sunday, 28 May, is World Hunger Day, a day every year that reminds us not to forget that hundreds of millions of people around the world suffer from chronic hunger. While global food production is currently adequate, food shortages persist in some regions due to deep social inequalities and chronic mismanagement.

More people die from hunger around the world than AIDS, malaria and tuberculosis combined. Due to poverty, many people do not have enough to eat for a long time. Their plight is not visible from the daily news reports.

John Kondold, executive deputy director of the Hunger Project for Non-Governmental Organizations, said: "The news right now is that there is famine in countries like Yemen, South Sudan and Somalia. Ethiopia is suffering from drought, and these are emergencies.

There are about 100 million hungry people in > Africa and 100 million in South Asia. "Floods and droughts can lead to sporadic food crises, but persistent food shortages are the result of chronic mismanagement," Konnlod said. The world produces enough food to feed 10 billion people, more than the world's 7.5 billion people, but nearly 800 million people suffer from chronic hunger due to profound social problems in many parts of the world.

"Most of the people who go hungry are farmers who farm, and most of the world's farmers are women," Konnrod said. "In many places, women do most of the agricultural work, but in a patriarchal society, they are denied the right to make decisions.

"When you empower women, their decisions have the greatest impact on family life," Konnlod said. They feed their children, so when it comes to making decisions, they prioritize food, health care and education, and because they are directly involved in society, they know what needs to be done.

Political factors, economic factors, and regional wars.

Why are you hungry? It's the feeling of the nerve center. We have to eat every day, and the food we eat is usually emptied from the stomach after about 4-5 hours.

At this point, the stomach will begin to contract violently. The time it takes for the stomach to empty is closely related to the composition of the food. If it is purely sugary food, it usually takes about 2 hours to empty, protein food, about 3-4 hours, and pure fat food, about 5-6 hours.

Therefore, the average time to mix food is 4-5 hours.

The rate at which the stomach empties is also directly proportional to the amount of food eaten. If there is 100 ml of chyme in the stomach, about 5 ml per minute will be excreted, and when the volume of chyme in the stomach reaches 500 ml, 15 ml per minute will be emptied.

Once the contents of the stomach are emptied, the stomach begins to contract. This is a more violent contraction that originates from the cardia and moves in the direction of the pylorus. This contraction makes the person feel hungry; That is, a signal that you should eat.

We know that there is always a certain amount of liquid and gas in the stomach at any given time. The liquid is generally the gastric digestive juice secreted by the gastric mucosa, and the amount is not too much. As for gas, it is usually swallowed along with food when eating.

In this way, these liquids and gases in the stomach, in the case of violent contraction of the stomach wall, will be squeezed and kneaded, running around, just like when we wash clothes, if there is a certain amount of air wrapped in the clothes, rubbing and rubbing in the water, there will also be a sound of sucking and cooing, which is the same reason.

Because people consume energy every day, and most of the energy is obtained from food, when the food in the stomach is almost digested, people will be hungry.

At present, 34 developing countries have serious problems in the field of food sales. Hunger is most affected by South Africa (100 million people) and South and South-East Asia (100 million people), while 63 million people are hungry in Latin America and the Caribbean. The FAO report (The State of Food and Agriculture in the World, Rome, 1998) states that if the number of people in the world suffering from food shortages increased to 100 million in 1994-1996, if in 1992-1994 there were 100 million; 20 percent of people in developing countries are food insecure or insecure.

What is more, world food production is declining, and even more striking than the decline is the lack of access to food for millions of people struggling below the poverty line.

Currently, more than 75 percent of the world's population barely feeds, and nearly 500 million people are acutely malnourished. Every year, 41,000 children die from hunger and related diseases. Reports from many countries in the Third World** indicate that life expectancy is declining, infant mortality rates are rising, and famine is frequent.

Of the 35 low-income developing countries, 21 had fewer total daily calories per capita in 1985 than in 1965; Over the past decade, almost half of the 115 developing countries have experienced a decline in per capita food consumption. More than 100 million Africans suffer from severe food shortages. More than 60 million people are on the brink of hunger, and no one knows how many have died of AIDS.

In South Asia, some 200 million people live forever in the shadow of hunger and disease.