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Story about hunger

Hunger

Hunger

Good nutrition can change children's lives, improve their physical and mental development, protect their health and build a firm foundation for future productivity. Over 200 million children in Third World nations with less than five years are malnourished. For them and for the world, this message is particularly urgent. Malnutrition kills more than 50% of the 12 million deaths of children under five in developing countries every year. Malnourished children often lose precious mental capacities.

Has been determined that malnutrition stops the growth of children and adolescents, and is fatal in babies who weigh less than they should and can not resist disease.

Story about hunger

Story about hunger

Most of the deaths by starvation due to malnutrition, hunger is caused by large stimuli that exert certain substances on the brain. For example, hypoglycemia stimulates the lateral hypothalamus and vagal stimulation produces force us to eat, while fatty acids, cholecystokinin and serotonin stimulate the ventromedial hypothalamus and giving us the opposite feeling of hunger, the satiety.