{"id":959,"date":"2010-02-26T09:00:35","date_gmt":"2010-02-26T14:00:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.elca.org\/hungerrumblings\/?p=959"},"modified":"2010-02-26T09:00:35","modified_gmt":"2010-02-26T14:00:35","slug":"what-are-we-fighting-post-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.elca.org\/worldhunger\/what-are-we-fighting-post-4\/","title":{"rendered":"What are we fighting? Post 4."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This is the fourth post in a series considering the root causes of hunger. The Millennium Development Goals serve as a helpful framework.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Millennium Development Goals 4 and 5: Reduce Child Mortality; Improve Maternal Health<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Hunger, maternal health, and child mortality form a vicious cycle. Bread for the World\u2019s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bread.org\/learn\/hunger-reports\/frontline-issues-in-nutrition.html\" target=\"_blank\"><em>Frontline Issues in Nutrition Assistance: Hunger Report<\/em> <em>2006<\/em><\/a> (Chapter 3, pg. 77) offers an illustration: A hungry woman is malnourished and lacks good health care. She hasn&#8217;t had enough to eat for a long time and is underweight. Now she becomes pregnant. Lacking sufficient food for herself, let alone a baby, she does not gain enough weight or take in enough nutrients for a healthy pregnancy. Between the demands of a growing fetus, insufficient health care, and hunger, her health is further strained.\u00a0In a state of such physical weakness, her risk of\u00a0dying during childbirth increases. If she survives, breastfeeding and caring for a baby will make further demands of her body and energy, requiring more food than usual \u2013 food that she still\u00a0doesn\u2019t have.<\/p>\n<p>In the meantime, her baby, lacking adequate nutrition in the womb, is born weighing less than he should. He has a tough start to life. His immune system is weak, so he&#8217;s likely to get sick and may not make it to his fifth birthday. If he survives, his physical and mental development may be slowed or even impaired\u00a0without adequate amounts of milk and food. Without adequately nutrition, as\u00a0he\u00a0grows into\u00a0adolescence\u00a0and adulthood, he is smaller, weaker, more susceptible to illness, and less productive than he would have been otherwise. This makes\u00a0it more difficult to maintain employment and secure enough to eat.\u00a0It is difficult to break out of the cycle of poverty. In the case of a baby girl, the cycle repeats itself with each pregnancy. Sadly, poor maternal health is both a cause and effect of hunger.<\/p>\n<p>On the hopeful side, it is a cycle, which means it can be interrupted.\u00a0Or even transformed. Appropriate food intake can turn the process\u00a0from a viscious cycle into a virtuous one. With enough to eat, women are stronger, more able to meet the requirement of pregnancy, and more able to secure food and resources for themselves and their children. Their babies are born healthier, stonger, and more resistant to illness. With properly fueled development, these children\u00a0grow into fully productive adults,\u00a0increasing their capacity to maintain employment and feed their own families. Providing food can reduce child mortality, improve maternal health, and eventually, reduce hunger.<\/p>\n<p>-Nancy Michaelis<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is the fourth post in a series considering the root causes of hunger. The Millennium Development Goals serve as a helpful framework. 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