It is estimated that some 800 million people in the world suffer from hunger and malnutrition, about 100 times as many as those who actually die from it each year. Two thirds of these children live in Asia, half in South Asia. Protein-Energy Malnutrition is a leading cause of stunting, underweight, and wasted children. Protein deficiency results in Kwashiorkor, recognized by bloating of the stomach. Marasmus is calorie deficiency, also resulting in wasting.
Marasmic kwashiorkor is a deficiency of both protein and calories.
Iodine deficiency affects 740 million people worldwide, and is the single greatest cause of preventable brain damage in babies. It results in goiter, stillbirth, miscarriages and mental retardation. Vitamin A deficiency results in up to 500,000 children becoming blind each year. About half of these will die within a year of becoming blind. Governments answer to and benefit elites with Credit, Subsidies, Assistance.