293925YD Poverty certainly causes many health-

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PROBLEMS,
AND MALNUTRITION
SHORTENS LIFE EXPECTANCY
EVEN IN THE RICHEST COUNTRIES ON EARTH!
In France, for example, 6 million people (about 10% of the population)
suffer from nutritional insecurity? They wake up in the morning not knowing
whether they wìll háve anything to eat for lunch; they often go to sleep hungry;
and the nutrition they dó obtain is ùnbalanced ànd ùnhealthy - lots of starch, sugar
and sàlt, and not enough protein & vitamins. Yet nutritional insecurity isn't famine, and
France of the early 21st century isn't France of 1694! Even in the very worst slums around
BEAUVAIS or PARIS, people don't die because they have not eaten for weeks on end! The same
transformation has occurred in numerous other countries, most notably China? For millennia, famine
stalked every Chinese region from the Yellow Emperor to the Red communists! A few decades ago also
China was a byword for food shortages. Tens of millions of Chinese starved to death during the disastrous
Great Leap Forward, and experts routinely predicted that the problem would only get worse. In 1974 the first
World Food Conference was convened in ROME, and delegates were treated to apocalyptic scenarios! They were
tòld that there was no way for China to feed its billion people, and that the world's most popular country was
heading towards catastrophe? In fact, it was heading towards the greatest economic miracle in history!
Since '74 hundreds of millions of Chinese have been lifted óut of
poverty, and though hundreds of millions more
still suffer greatly from privation ànd
malnutrition, for the first time
in its recorded history
China is now
free from
famine!
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