Anna Soubry Quotes

You can't expect kids who don't have enough to eat to do well.

40 percent of North Korean children suffer from stunted growth. 20 percent are underweight.

You didn't eat some days for two days you didn't eat properly.

I went to Ethiopia, and it dawned on me that you can tell a starving, malnourished person because they've got a bloated belly and a bald head. And I realized that if you come through any American airport and see businessmen running through with bloated bellies and bald heads, that's malnutrition, too.

People are overweight and starving at the same time. It's a tragedy for both the individual and society.

India unfortunately has the unenviable reputation of being the home to the largest number of undernourished children, women and men in the world.

And who is any of us, that without starvation he can go through the kingdoms of starvation?

The correlation between poverty and obesity can be traced to agricultural policies and subsidies.

Physical hunger and physical poverty is something I could only imagine. I've been poor when I was in China... As kids we never had to starve, but just didn't have enough meat, enough rice.

What happens when corn and wheat prices rise is that we see real increases in malnutrition and under-nutrition. And when children are malnourished, their brain development actually slows down and is affected. So this is not just a short-term impact.

Close to a billion people - one-eighth of the world's population - still live in hunger. Each year 2 million children die through malnutrition. This is happening at a time when doctors in Britain are warning of the spread of obesity. We are eating too much while others starve.

The lack of access to proper nutrition is not only fueling obesity, it is leading to food insecurity and hunger among our children.

As a child I was sometimes so hungry that I used to dream that one day I'd get locked in a grocery store.

More than 820 million people in the world suffer from hunger; and 790 million of them live in the Third World.

When food prices surge, poor families suddenly find themselves unable to afford enough nutritious food. If this happens during the first thousand days of a child's life, the damage to his or her body and mind can be permanent.

The interesting thing is, while we die of diseases of affluence from eating all these fatty meats, our poor brethren in the developing world die of diseases of poverty, because the land is not used now to grow food grain for their families.

You can’t make progress in any of the other problems in the world if people are undernourished.

All kids should be able to have healthy food to eat and should not have to worry about when their next meal will be.

starvation is a shame and disgrace to the world and totally unnecessary in modern times.

When you are already eating as cheaply and meagerly as possible, any raise in cost can quickly plunge you and your family into hunger.

The work of Nigeria is not complete for as long as there is any one Nigerian who goes to bed on empty stomach.

Yesterday in this country we had people die of hunger and malnutrition. In some parts of this country, the infant mortality rate rivals that of sub-Saharan Africa. We have a public education system that ranks below that of almost any other Western nation.

We are living in the 21st century, and children are dying of hunger, so how do we fight it?

The federal government spends about $2.51 per child per day to feed them lunch. Out of that, you have to pay for labor, facilities, and administrative costs, leaving about a dollar for food. Imagine trying to feed yourself a nutritious meal every day with only a dollar. Very difficult.

Each year, several million children either die or suffer irreparable developmental defects because of vitamin A deficiency. Countless others are harmed by malnutrition and starvation. Yet many of these deaths would be preventable if we addressed them head on and used the tools that exist to stop them.