HLTC18H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Seasonal Food, Food Security, Malnutrition
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Write anything you want pretty much; googling biological determinants, make sure there is literature available, can use a news article but you need a lot of journal articles. When it comes to food today we decide now what do we want to eat. Food insecurity is a biological determinant because you need food and healthy food to survive. Malnutrition is an outcome of food insecurity, unhealthy environement. Because of an inability o manahe those risks ; prone to droughts or floods etc: if there is an iability to manage ther will be an inability to manage. 2 main interventsion options: reduce the regree of exposure to the hazard, increase the ability to cope. Food security, health , education, decent work (work that oyou have liveable wages off) Start with poverty; food security hunger and malturiotn then poor physical and cognitive development, and low productivity is the cycle and unfortatly the cycle just continues.
