What is Chronic Hunger?
The result of consistently insufficient diets in terms of quantity and/or quality is chronic hunger. People in poverty experience chronic hunger as a result of their extremely low income and inability to purchase even survival food. Malnutrition, which is caused by consuming fewer calories than necessary for an average, active life, is the main cause of chronic hunger.
Differentiate between Seasonal Hunger and Chronic Hunger
Not a general lack of food, but rather the lack of access to food, particularly nutritive food, is the key contributor to hunger. It takes more than just providing someone with adequate calories to end hunger. Hunger has two dimensions:
- Seasonal hunger
- Chronic hunger
Seasonal Hunger and Chronic Hunger