amin C that a hungry person does without can cause scurvy, loss of teeth, and a weakening of the immune system. Lack of iodine in ones diet can cause crippling or mental retardation. The lack of vitamin A in ones diet can cause blindness. In its worst cases, malnutrition leads to death, especially in children. “In Latin America and Caribbean, studies indicate that malnutrition is the primary cause of or major contributing factor in 60 percent of deaths of children under the age of five.”10 Malnutrition hits hardest on the children because they are still growing and developing immunities to disease and developing strong healthy bodies. For a malnourished child, common illnesses such as measles and diarrhea can lead to death. Seventy-five percent of the people that die from hunger every 3.6 seconds across the globe are children under the age of 5. Hunger affects adults as well by weakening their immune systems and making them weak suspecting them to sickness and disease, which will later lead to death. The solution to ending world hunger does not lie in money or any other one answer. There are many ideas and “solutions” being applied today, yet hunger remains. In terms of dollars the United States has been the worlds largest donor of foreign aid.11 The U.S. Marshall Plan of 1948 was the first government foreign-aid program. General George Marshall outlined the plan stating: “It is logical that the United States should do whatever it is able to do to assist in the return of normal economic health in the world…Our policy is directed not against any country or doctrine, but against hunger, poverty, desperation and chaos. Its purpose should be the revival of a working economy in the world so as to permit the emergence of political and social conditions in which free institutions can exist…”12 The Marshall Plan put major emphasis on grants and loans for repair of industrial plants and infrastruct...
