unit 13: food guides around the world

Question 1

what is the cycle of undernutrition?

Answer 1

• begins with women who consume a nutrient-deficient diet during pregnancy
• these women are likely to produce low-birth-weight infants
• low-birth-weight infants have stunted growth as children and as adults, usually because they do not have access to food
• these adults have poor health and women adults will produce low-birth-weight infants beginning the cycle again

Question 2

what is the infant mortality rate in industrialized and developing countries?

Answer 2

• in industrialized countries, infant mortality rate is less than 6 per 1000 live births
• in developing countries, infant mortality rate is more than 100 per 1000 live births