Obesity in America as Opposed to Starvation in Africa
by In this article you can find a lot of useful information about the real statistics of how people are dying because they can’t share.
Obesity in America
- Did You know that obesity in Adults has increased 60% in the past 20 years.
- Did you know that approximately 60 million people in the United States are affected by obesity.
- Did you know that Over one-third of women between the ages of 20 and 74 are obese.
- Did you know that in states like West Virginia and Mississippi almost one in every three people are obese.
- Did you Know that obesity is the second most effective cause of death in America.
- Did you know that Obesity Kills 400,000 Americans Annually.
- Did you know that in America obesity is considered an epidemic.
- Did you know that the only sure fire way to cure this epidemic is by eating less and exercising more!
Starvation
- Did you know that over 4 million Africans are suffering from starvation.
- Did you know that healthy food is something that some African people only eat once a year.
- Did you know that one quarter of children in Africa don’t live to see their 5th birthday.
| Southern Africa drought | |||
| People at risk by Dec. 2002 | Aid requested US$mn |
% received by 11 Aug. 2002 | |
| Angola |
3,000,000 |
236.0 |
47.0 |
| Lesotho |
444,800 |
41.0 |
20.6 |
| Malawi |
3,188,000 |
144.3 |
21.7 |
| Mozambique |
515,000 |
43.7 |
12.6 |
| Swaziland |
231,000 |
19.0 |
14.6 |
| Zambia |
2,329,000 |
71.4 |
28.9 |
| Zimbabwe |
6,075,000 |
285.1 |
15.0 |
| Total |
15,782,800 |
847.2* |
26.3 |
|
* Includes $6.7 mn unallocated by country. Source: UN Africa Recovery from data from the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs, World Food Programme and US Agency for International Development. |
- Did you know that these 4 million lives could be saved if for one day America would put down the food, wake up, and help these people thus saving themselves as well.
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On April 22, 2009 at 8:10 pm
good job mikey
Nathan G
On April 25, 2009 at 9:01 am
Good piece to get people thinking. Its shocking how some people have so much whilst others have so little.