Food and Health key terms

Question 1

Chronic hunger

Answer 1

Long-term hunger caused by a lack of food over a long timescale

Question 2

Periodic hunger

Answer 2

Temporary hunger that is caused by a short-term decline in food intake

Question 3

Malnutrition

Answer 3

Having a diet that lacks proper nutrition, caused by not having enough to eat or not having enough good-quality food.

Question 4

Epidemiology

Answer 4

The study of diseases

Question 5

Endemic

Answer 5

(Of a disease) prevalent in an area

Question 6

Epidemic

Answer 6

A fast-spreading outbreak of a disease

Question 7

Pandemic

Answer 7

A global epidemic

Question 8

HALE

Answer 8

Health-adjusted life expectancey- the length of time that an individual can expect to live based on ajustments made for years of ill health.

Question 9

Food security

Answer 9

-Food security for a population exists when all its people, at all times, have access to sufficient, safe and nutritious food to meet their dietary needs and food preferences for an active and healthy life.

-Food security for a household means access by all its members at all times to enough food for an active, healthy life. (UN Food and Agriculture Organization)

-Food security includes, at a minimum: (i) the ready availability of nutritionally adequate and safe foods; and (ii) an assured ability to acquire acceptable foods in socially acceptable ways (that is, without resorting to emergency
food supplies, scavenging, stealing or other coping strategies). (US Department of Agriculture)