Camellmar

 

These days I'm very seldom watching TV, if I watch then it's usually

soccer or ice hockey that I'm watching or series. This is because 

nowadays they have tons of programs where you compete in being

a Master chef or the best baker in the country. These kind of shows 

do make me feel bad at times. Not because I don't like what they do,

but because when I think of how expensive it must have been to set 

up those kitchens, how expensive all those rare ingredients are, and how

much they probably throw away.

 

 

It makes me feel bad that we still today have so many people in this world

who can't get enough nutrition, who can't afford food for their entire family

and here we sit, watching when people make exclusive dishes or/and

pastries. I can't quite understand how people can sit and watch when someone

is making an expensive dish.  While there are, at this very moment, lots of people

who is just wishing for a piece of bread.

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Did you know that globally, 1 out of 6 children at an age of 5, are underweight. That

1 out of 8 people are going hungry to bed each day.(United Nations Development Programme)

It has been shown that undernutrition and infections are coexisting. Undernutrition could

lead to infections, and infections could also lead to undernutrition, it's an neverending, bad,

circle.  Each year, about seven million children dies from infections that have mainly occurred

as a result from undernutrition. Undernutrition is actually impairing the immune system and

and this process is also known as NAIDS (Nutritionally Aquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome),

which is according to Friis (Professor of  Nutrition and Health) more widespread than HIV.

 

Yes, I'm aware that we can't always think of others..or can we? I have been feeling really bad 

lately when thinking of the children who are sick. I work with children nowadays, and to see how

quickly they become ill when not getting the nutrition (when an infection is making them lose

their appetite) then I'm just thinking further, how difficult it must be in other places where children

can't get help as quickly as e.g. here in Finland. Of course not only children, but people in general.

 

 

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I'm thinking, what if we would have an campaign in September, where we, instead of 

buying candy, chips, pastries or expensive food, during one week (I think more people

would participate then) would save that money that we were about to use for that stuff

and instead donate it to some kind of charity. 

 

 

e.g. we could buy seeds that would be given to a family so they can grow it and get

the nutrition they need or porridge for an entire village.

 

There are other things of course that you could buy as an gift, for others or just because

you wanna make a change. But the point here is, why can't we pay additional attention

to this for one week. Maybe we could all of us also switch off the TV for one week, to 

show that we do care. That we are worried about the Global Health.