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- 1. BY K A R I S AVO I E
- 2. Purpose • Name the problems • How to stop them
- 4. Malnutrition • Occurs when people don’t get and essential diet or any food at all • 1 in 5 children in developing countries are malnourished
- 6. Obesity Part 2 • 2015- 2.3 billion people will be overweight and 700 million will be obese (WHO)
- 7. How the Problem Can be Solved • Genetically Modified Food • Biodiversity in Food Production • Abolition of Fast/Convenience Food
- 8. Genetically Modified Food • Food that has been altered with DNA • Hopes to double amount of crops and improve nutritional quality of food in the future
- 9. Biodiversity • Controls the variety of organisms on the food chain • Future- new pesticides and greater variety of crops
- 10. Abolition of Fast/Convenience Food • Use up a lot of valuable resources • Resources could be divided among undeveloped countries
Editor's Notes
- The purpose of the presentation is to name the problems of the modern world today and what the society can do now and in the future to stop these problems.
- The problems of the modern world are obesity and malnutrition. Obesity occurs in developed countries and malnutrition occurs in undeveloped countries.
- In our world today, 1 in 5 children in developing (third-world) countries are undernourished according to the WHO. The largest population of these children is in South-central Asia with 56 million children that are underweight.
- This table is from the WHO and the data is from 2005. It shows that 1.6 billion adults are overweight and 400 million are obese. In the data, most of the obesity of adults is in the more developed countries. These statistics did not exist 50 years ago because obesity never was not an issue. If obesity wasn’t a problem 50 years ago, then citizens of the world should be able to abolish it in the next 50 years. But, it is a lot harder to get into a hole then out of one.
- This is a prediction of the WHO for the adult population in 2015. They predict that 2.3 billion people will be overweight and 700 million will be obese.
- Genetically modified food has been implemented with DNA of plants. Right now, it raises the yield and efficiency of growing the crops. In the future, they hope that with new implementations, they can raise the nutritional content of some foods. Also, it will improve the food production by making it faster. For example, a plant could go through 2 growing cycles a year versus 1. This would double food amounts. In the future, scientists are also hoping to experiment with genetically modifying animals. For example, cows could be genetically modified to make more milk. With this, more dairy products could be produced and made available to the developing world.
- Biodiversity is necessary in the world of food production because it controls the food chain. For local diets to be healthy, you have to maintain high biodiversity levels in the environment. This leads to a greater variety of healthy food. In the future, farmers might have a greater variety of crops and crop rotations to balance the biodiversity and food chain of the area. Also, fertilizers and pesticides will be used only to benefit the crops and not to hurt the biodiversity of the environment. This would require the creation of new types of fertilizers.
- McDonalds. Jack In the Box. Carl’s Junior. I am sure that everybody in this room has been to one of these sorts of places at least once before. These restaurants take up so much grain, beef, potatoes, and tomatoes that could be used to feed others in un-developed countries in healthier ways. So, in the future, legislature of developed countries, such as America, could ban these restaurants. All of the products that would have gone to these fast food places could be equally distributed in un-developed countries. This would lower the rate of obesity in developed countries and the rate of malnutrition in un-developed countries.