THE EFFECTS OF HUNGER ON CHILDREN'S ACADEMIC SUCCESS IN PENNSYLVANIA

Effects of Hunger on Children's Academic Success

The effects of hunger on children's academic success in Pennsylvania

Abstract

To survive, people need to feel that at least they have food to satisfy their most basic needs of energy and nutrients. Without an adequate nutrition, youth cannot develop fully in grounds of education and adults have difficulty maintaining or increasing development (thinking and reflect, respond to stimuli, moving with full functionality, working with high performance). Currently in the Pennsylvania there are children, young people and adults hungry. This situation is especially serious as one in five people go to bed hungry.

In Pennsylvania, hunger is the contribution of human resource development by affecting the ability of people to improve their lives and not the deterioration of the labor productivity of subversion. Hunger is also found in education learning difficulties like learning difficulties, truancy and high dropout rates among school children.

For those in Pennsylvania, who for various reasons, hunger is not only a consequence of poverty, but also a cause continued. In Pennsylvania where hunger is widespread, growth is affected in total, with an annual decline of nearly one percent or more in the rate of economic growth. Because they are closely related, the trio of challenges - hunger, health and education - must work together to be much higher than what has been done so far required.

These data confirm that this problem has been globalized and appears as a actually linked not only to poverty but also to other factors such as disasters natural, wars and social conflicts, the countries' external debt, growth population, the spread of disease, increased migration is recognized that the resources they have on Earth, they considered as a whole, can and feed all its inhabitants.

Thesis statement

The food crisis in the Pennsylvania is mainly affecting the most vulnerable populations. The problem of crisis has lead to hunger and starvation. Hungry and improper nutrition of children cause learning problems where by children did not learn and develop with full potential and that reason is causing the adverse effects of hunger on children's academic success in Pennsylvania.

Education, assumed to be the backbone of economy and state, is not producing and helping the youth and government to solve the economic problems and issues as the children of Pennsylvania did not learn effectively and efficiently.

Many experts who addressed the issue of hunger and malnutrition are saying that Education is the best way to reduce hunger. People who have access to education, whether girls, boys, young adults, have the best means to break the cycle of poverty that causes hunger itself.

Literature review

The state of Pennsylvania has lack of access to education and information deprives households of basic knowledge nutrition, but malnutrition also affects education prevents children as, and girls perform poorly in school (inattention, lack of motivation to learn, learning difficulties, school dropout) and reduces the productivity of people at work, preventing them even work. Illiteracy and lack of knowledge about exercising one's ...