Child Hunger Persuasive Essay

Have you ever been hungry once before, haven’t you, of course you have everyone has been hungry at least once in their life. One question I want to ask you is that have you ever been hungry to the point it hurts? For many kids in America, around 15.3 million, feel the sharp pains of hunger most days. I’m not going to give a speech about different places to donate too, or a charity. I’m going to tell you how these kids feel on a day to day basis. Then you can decide how you feel, so you can then decide how this affects your life. The population of Hubert is 14,977, with about 27.6% of the population goes hungry or lives in food deprived homes. Around 4,133 people go hungry mostly every day. Now add in, that around half of those people are children; at least 2,066 children go hungry in Hubert alone, daily. The population of Onslow County is about 185,220, with around 23.5% of the population that cannot afford nutritious meals. 43,526 people in Onslow County
The effects of hunger on the human body are; a healthy brain uses about 20% of your body’s total energy, hunger starves your brain. Malnourished kids typically fall behind in school or drop out, due to the fact that they cannot physically find the energy to concentrate even on the smallest of things. Some of the kids even drop out of school, so they can help their family to provide food for each other. A healthy heart pumps around 2,000 gallons of blood throughout the body every day. An undernourished heart shrinks in size, this makes the heart have to work twice as hard to pump blood throughout the body. Your liver and kidneys filter out toxins and waste, while your immune system fends off diseases to keep you safe. When your body goes hungry for too long, toxins start to build up in the livers and the kidneys fail, your immune system weakens and crumbles in face of