feast and famine Flashcards
nursery [‘nɜ:rsəri]
nursing home
MAHARASHTRA, 2010. In a village 130km (80 miles) from Mumbai, the head of a nursery is weighing a child.
[NOUN] A nursery is a place where children who are not old enough to go to school are looked after.
[NOUN] A nursing home is a private hospital, especially one for old people.
Feast or Famine
Too much or not enough of something as opposed to a steady, moderate amount. Such as work, food, or income.
stunt
undernourishment
More than half the nursery’s charges are below their proper weight (“wasted” in the jargon) or short for their age (“stunted”, a result of years of undernourishment).
[VERB] If something stunts the growth or development of a person or thing, it prevents it from growing or developing as much as it should.
[NOUN] If someone is suffering from undernourishment, they have poor health because they are not eating enough food or are eating the wrong kind of food.
anaemic [ə’ni:mɪk]
And most of their mothers are anaemic.
빈혈의
[NOUN] [ə’ni:miə] Anaemia is a medical condition in which there are too few red cells in your blood, causing you to feel tired and look pale.
miles off
In 1974, Henry Kissinger, America’s secretary of state, told the first world food summit that no child would go to bed hungry within ten years. He was miles off. Figures calculated for a follow-up conference, held on November 19th in Rome, show that 162m children under five are stunted.
[PHRASE] [v-link PHR] [INFORMAL] If you say that someone is miles away, you mean that they are unaware of what is happening around them because they are thinking about something else.
live on something
That is despite real global GDP growth of 3.6% a year over the same period and a fall by half in the share of the population of developing countries living on $1.25 a day or less.
to have a particular amount of money with which to buy everything you need
micronutrient
To be healthy, people need not just calories but nutrients such as vitamins and minerals. Lack of vitamin A can cause blindness; lack of iron causes anaemia. Two billion people are thought to suffer from some micronutrient deficiency.
[NOUN] any substance, such as a vitamin or trace element, essential for healthy growth and development but required only in minute amounts
respite [‘respaɪt, -pɪt]
take off
It used to be thought that when poor countries had cut hunger, they would have some respite before obesity took off.
[NOUN] A respite is a short period of rest from something unpleasant.
확늘다
correspondingly
manifestation [mænɪfes’teɪʃən]
As undernourishment has fallen, the number of people eating too many calories has risen correspondingly, meaning that many developing countries suffer all three manifestations of malnutrition—undernourishment, micronutrient deficiency and obesity—simultaneously.
[ADV] You use correspondingly when describing a situation which is closely connected with one you have just mentioned or is similar to it.
[NOUN] A manifestation of something is one of the different ways in which it can appear.
think-tank
According to the first Global Nutrition Report, published earlier this month by the International Food Policy Research Institute, a Washington think-tank, every country except China and South Korea has a public-health problem with at least one of child stunting, anaemia among women of reproductive age and excessive weight among adults.
[NOUN] A think-tank is a group of experts who are gathered together by an organization, especially by a government, in order to consider various problems and try and work out ways to solve them.
3대 의학잡지
attributable to
A paper from 2013 in the Lancet, a medical journal, found that 45% of deaths of children under five are attributable to malnutrition.
Lancet,
New England of Journal of Medicine,
Journal of the American Medical Association
[ADJ] If something is attributable to an event, situation, or person, it is likely that it was caused by that event, situation or person.
dweller
City-dwellers often eat a high-calorie diet which, combined with a sedentary life, leads to obesity.
[NOUN] A city dweller or slum dweller, for example, is a person who lives in the kind of place or house indicated.
hoard [hɔ:rd]
Childhood hunger trains the body to hoard fat, so the poorest are more prone to obesity as adults.
[VERB] If you hoard things such as food or money, you save or store them, often in secret, because they are valuable or important to you.
dietary supplement [d’aɪəteri]
It used to be thought that malnutrition could be solved by growing more food or providing dietary supplements.
(medicine) Any substance, such as a vitamin or mineral, taken as a supplement to food to replace nutrients that would otherwise be missing in a person’s diet.
by and large
By and large, the quantity of food has not been a problem: most countries grow or import enough.
used when you are saying something that is generally, but not completely, true
