L A N G L E Y A D V A N C E | Tu esday, December 27, 2011 |
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Nutrition
Worldwide, it’s either feast or famine
by Heather Colpitts
hcolpitts@langleyadvance.com
Speakers and presenters at the local event marking World Food Day urged those attending to do something to make the world a better place. Langley Secondary School hosted the community event for the day, created by the United Nations to spotlight food, hunger, poverty, food security and related issues. Nurse Grace Wilson and other speakers at World Food Day had a message for students and other attendees. “Every person, and I do mean you, has something special to offer the world,” she said. Langley MP Mark Warawa stood in the House of Commons to announce the community event and congratulate the community.
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Grace Wilson urged students to think about food, including what they put in their own mouths, and about those who don’t have enough to eat.
“There’s a great example of how Canadians are making a difference in the world,” he said. World Food Day was a chance to find out some of the food and health programs that exist in the community but mostly it was a chance to contrast food issues for Canadians versus those in underdeveloped countries. Wilson said people’s problem is either too much food or too little. She nursed in Zambia where she came face-to-face with the statistics. According to experts, a child dies of hunger every 10 seconds, “but it may be six,” she told a gym full of students and community members. One in seven people are chronically malnourished (able to obtain them. She noted that half a million less than one cup of food per day) children go blind each year due to and that 195 million children in the a lack of vitamin A and once vision world will suffer from malnutrition is gone, it’s gone. She added that this year. those that don’t go blind often can’t Children chronically malnourished fight off infections. have many health affects. Wilson The crowd was told the solution explained that, if isn’t simple. Fruits they make it to and vegetables that adulthood, they are are available are unable to care for often overcooked, their children. destroying their “Can you guys nutrients and a see how we’re kind chicken costs a of setting up a cycle month’s wages so here?” she asked they have to find the audience. other sources of proDespite that, the tein. village leaders she Wilson then Heather Colpitts/Langley Advance encountered pleaddelved into the food Grace Wilson’s presentation ed with her for one dilemmas of the included brain scans of two-yearthing and it wasn’t developed world. old children. The one on the left food. One billion people is of a child with sufficient food “Our biggest conon Earth go to bed cern is our kids getwhile the one on the right is of a hungry each night, ting an education,” but 1.5 billion are malnourished child. village leaders told overweight or worse, her. and that’s killing people. She explained that they knew it She noted that on both ends of was education that would ultimthe spectrum the key issue is quality ate break the cycle of poverty and of food, not quantity. hunger. Plenty of people in developed Wilson went through a quick list nations are malnourished due to of basic vitamins and minerals to the western diet and many people explain the impact of living without struggle with eating disorders.
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Lawrence Yu is studing economics and taught at a slum school in India last year where he saw first hand how food policy and poverty impact people. Heather Colpitts Langley Advance
“We have food problems with how much we eat and some have problems with how little we eat,” Wilson said. The inability of millions of people in the world lacking basic nutrition has implications for the entire planet, according to Lawrence Yu, a university student studying economics. Yu spent six weeks last summer teaching in a slum school near New Delhi. Despite India having one of the fastest growing economies in the world, there is still massive poverty and a growing gap between the rich and poor, he noted. “You would see BMWs drive by while kids are starving, begging on the streets,” he noted. In poor countries, people spend about 85 per cent of their income on food and their income is inconsistent. About 2.5 billion people live on $2 or less per day. Yu admitted that when he was in high school, he never thought of people abroad and global issues. “As I grow older, I kind of regret that I didn’t get more involved earlier,” he said. Yu also issued a call to action, urging the audience to “Think bigger.”
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Speakers and exhibits at the World Food Day event in Langley gave people plenty to chew on.