Foods and Nutrition 1021 Lecture Notes - Lecture 15: Iron-Deficiency Anemia, Papaya, High High

• School: Western University
• Department: Foods and Nutrition
• Course: Foods and Nutrition 1021
• Professor: Noelle Martin

Document Summary

Food insecurity- the condition of limited or uncertain access to food of sufficient quality or quantity to sustain a healthy, active life. Food security- reliable access to enough nutritious food at all times to sustain a healthy, active life. Lack or shortage of basic foods needed to provide energy & nutrients that support health. Chronic, painful feeling when no food or too little food is available. Food shortage- hunger occurring when an area of the world lacks enough total food to feed its people. Widespread & extreme scarcity of food in an area that causes starvation & death in a large portion of the population. Lack of awareness of or access to available food programs. Who is affected?- more common in developed countries. Chronic poor - migrant workers, unskilled & unemployed, homeless, some elderly. Working poor- displaced farm families, blue-collar & white-collar workers forced out of their trade or profession. Hunger & pem affect >870m people worldwide.