A big tub of hot, buttery popcorn and a medium cold frozen Coke, please. These are the words that millions of Americans will say when going to the cinema to see the blockbuster film The Hunger Games. This film portrays the struggles between different sections of society. The struggle to feed their families when government forces and geographic disparity hinder their progress. Too often this film parallels the real life circumstances of people across the land. The term hunger in America is not the same as hunger in underdeveloped countries like Africa. According to the United Nations, nearly a quarter of children under five are expected to remain underweight in 2015. The World Health Organization has flagged hunger and related malnutrition as the greatest threat to global public health. Improving nutrition is widely considered the most effective form of help. Nutrition-specific interventions that address the immediate causes of undernutrition have been shown to offer the best value for money among all development interventions. In Africa, malnutrition rates are increasing (Hanson 204-5). For hundreds of millions of people, hunger is a daily threat. In poor nations of Africa, Asia and Latin America, billions of hungry people are at risk of starvation. It begins with a pain in the stomach that eventually weakens the heart and stops beating. Today, approximately five billion of the world's five point nine billion population live in poor nations. (Web “Hunger and malnutrition”). Low-income children have a higher rate of poor health and iron deficiency than high-income children. Of the 42% of families experiencing food insecurity, approximately seven million and four million received the ass… middle of paper… Dietetic Association. Journal of the American Dietetic Association 95.10 (1995): 1160. ProQuest. Network. December 3, 2013.Pugh, Tony. “Food insecurity affects 17.6 million US families.” McClatchy Washington DC New Office. 04 September 2013. SIRS Problem Researcher. Network. 08 Dec 2013.Russell, Sharman. Hunger. New York: Basic Books. 2005. Print.Struble, M.B. and L.L. Aomari. “World Dietetic Association Position: Addressing World Hunger, Malnutrition and Food Insecurity.” American Dietetic Association. Journal of the American Dietetic Association 103.8 (2003): 1046. ProQuest. Network. 3 December 2013. “The state of hunger in the world”. Nutrition Reviews 52.5 (1994): 151. ProQuest. Network. December 3, 2013.Uphaus, Charles. “Ending world hunger: the role of agriculture”. www.Joomag.com. June 2008. Web. 9 March. 2014. “World Food Programme.” www.wfp.org. 02 January 2013, web. March 10, 2014.