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World food

Prewatching activity. Teachers-students activity

- What are nutritients? Are they the same as food?

- How would you define malnutrition?

- Do you think is easy to prevent this illness?

- Do you think world food distribution is fair?

Which countries of the world do you think are suffering from hunger?

Video transcription:

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most people think of malnutrition as not having enough to eat

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but for many of the world's hungry people the problem is that they get to

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few of the minerals and vitamins that they need to thrive

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physically and mentally

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malnutrition often starts in the womb, malnourished mothers give birth to

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malnourished children

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creating a cycle that continues for generations

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we need to break this cycle

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by ensuring that the hungry have the right foods at the right time

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if children don't get the right food in the first two years of life

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the damage done to their physical growth is irreversible

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acting during that critical window of opportunity

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is essential because the goal in fighting malnutrition is not only to treat it

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when it happens

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it's also to prevent it from happening in the first place

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did you know that the cost to preventing malnutrition among children under two is

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half the cost of treating children who are already severely malnourished

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making nutrition a priority can help save the lives

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of millions of mothers and children every year

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when considering the number of people who will benefit

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the global cost of fighting malnutrition is really not that big

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for example

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for three point six billion dollars all the malnourished infants and toddlers in

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the world could receive the special foods they need to prevent and treat

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moderate malnutrition

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sound like a lot well Europeans spent three times that much

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on ice cream

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the world already has the knowledge the ability and the means to solve this

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problem

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in our lifetime

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the challenge is to do it

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to build the next generation and give all the world's children

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the bright future they deserve.

1) Answer these questions individually:

Which age of people is the most affected by malnutrition in the world?

a) Teenagers

b) Children

c) Pregnant mothers

-Treating people who are affected by this illness is the best solution True/False Why?

- Do you think malnourished people exist in your country?

2) Speaking activity in pairs. You can see pictures from different countries diet in the world on the next button.

a) Which countries spend the most money buying food? and the least?

b) Which countries do you think have a healthy diet? Why? You can use the visual glossary to mention the different ingredients.

c) Which illnesses related to food could be in the different countries?

e) Do you think your diet is well-balanced? Why?

* Remember you can click to the unknown words for you in the pictures and dictionary links

3) Writing activity in groups of 4. Click on "what the world eats" and you can see the diets in all the world.

Write the different proportion names of the wheel.

a) Which is the country that consume the least calories? How many? Which products do they eat mostly?

b) Compair the Spanish diet with The UK and with EU.

Which kind of food do they eat most in each one? and the least?

Which diet do you think is the best of the three? Why?

Go to the meat consumption ghrapics:

a) Which country eats the most meat? and least?

b) Which kind of meat do Spanish people eat the most? Is that meat healthier than the others?

c) Thinking about diet and meat consumption. Do you think Vietnam has a better diet than The UK? Why?