Hunger! Humanities Oldest Enemy

HUNGER, HUMANITY'S OLDEST ENEMY

Hunger and malnutrition are still the number one risks to health worldwide.

In the final quarter of the 20th century, humanity was winning the war on its oldest enemy. From 1970-1997, the number of hungry people dropped from 959 million to 791 million -- mainly the result of dramatic progress in reducing the number of undernourished in China and India.

In the second half of the 1990s, however, the number of chronically hungry in developing countries increased at a rate of almost four million per year. By 2000-2002, the total number of undernourished people worldwide had risen to 852 million: 815 in developing countries, 28 million in countries in transition and nine million in industrialised countries.

Today, one in nearly seven people do not get enough food to be healthy and lead an active life hunger, making hunger and malnutrition the number one risk to health worldwide -- greater than AIDS, malaria and tuberculosis combined.

- UN World Food Programme

thank God Philippines isnt part of that list were people are starving to death!