Hunger and Obesity are Both Huge Problems

Hunger and obesity are both huge problems, and need to be treated as one problem, not two. Hunger and obesity can both lead back to poverty in many ways. Poverty levels show the likelihood of becoming hungry or obese. While obesity’s impact can be felt economically through health issues and costs, the use of resources to address hunger need to be linked to addressing the obesity issue since both obesity and hunger are connected.

There are many reasons why hunger and obesity need to be treated as one and the same. The connections of hunger and obesity are confusing. “Hunger and obesity often flip sides of the same malnutrition coin.”(Joel Berg). Hunger and obesity are the problems that can work together to wreak havoc on the world and you digestive system. The south Bronx has the highest hunger and obesity rate, may be due to the fact that hunger and obesity are working together. Obesity in children is at epidemic levels. School lunches have evolved to be as nutritious as possible at the cheap price of about 3$. The body of a hungry human often adapts to survive store more energy. The hungry body stores that energy in fat. Since fat weighs less than muscle, you can actually lose weight and still get fatter at the same time. The ratio of the weight of fat to the weight of muscle is the reason the obese are often hungrier than normal people. The obese need more energy to run the overweight body along with storing that energy the body stored in the fat. The “feast and famine” principle states hunger and obesity can coexist in the same house by, stating a mom or dad will give up their nutrition to their children to protect them from hunger. The parent starves while the child is fed properly. The problems of hunger and obesity can bot...

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...-service supermarkets, also leading people to go to McDonalds®. Healthier food can often times be more expensive. McDonald’s® food, although cheap and tasty, is unhealthy and doesn’t fill you up as well as a true dine in restaurants or expensive healthy food. The evidence of hunger and obesity as sidekicks is incriminating.

In conclusion cheap food doesn’t fill you up as well as expensive food and is less healthy. Obesity and hunger go hand and hand, shown by the evidence. Poverty levels in an area show the likelihood of obesity and hunger in the area. Money is needed to combat hunger and obesity. Donating, and fundraising are both ways of raising money to combat hunger and obesity. Muscle loss and fat gain to replace the muscle mass can still result in weight loss. Often hunger and obesity can strike in the same household due to the “feast and famine” principle.