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Elijha Smith
Professor Gitschlag Priscilla
Fundamentals of Communications
21 November 2024
Attention Getter: Imagine a time where you had low energy and lack of food
resources. Did you feel soreness in your muscles and tightness in your stomach. Now imagine if
you were to feel this discomfort every single day. In the last month, how often did you eat or
drink traditional foods.
Topic: In a world where you can walk to your nearest fast-food restaurant. It is easy for people to
forget about food insecurity. People define hunger as discomfort or weakness caused by the lack
of food. For example, some families in London Ontario, identical food items cost on average of
1.6 more at convenience stores than others compared with supermarkets, and residents of low-
income neighborhoods have very limited access to groceries stores.
Relevance/ Importance to Audience: This is not just a international thing, there could possibly be
people living in your community with lack of food.
Credibility: I have done a lot of research and I would like to share these findings with you also I
have family members who have experienced this.
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Body 1
1.) Need Step: The problem is not the lack of food but the lack of availability. It affects people
life, socailly, economically.
A. When I accessed this article” First nations food environment”: Exploring the role of
place,income, and social connection.
1) I learned that Populations with poor access to the social determinants of health—Including
high levels of food insecurity are over presented by obesity, chronic disease and other diet, and
lifestyle related, noncommunicable conditions.
2) Indigenous Organizations will search for solutions that will not only improve health outcomes
for their clients but also support cultural resurgence, is a shining example of what is possible.
B. According to” First nations food environment”: Exploring the role of place, income, and
social connection.
1) Rates of food insecurity are high in both geographies (55% and 35% among urban and
reserve-based respondents respectively.
2) Urban respondents reported income to be a significant barrier to food access
C. In the introduction of First Nations food environment”: Exploring the role place, income, and
social connection
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1) According to First Nations food environment”: Exploring the role of place, income, and social
connection. Although the dominant barriers to consistently accessing healthy foods--time and
money are slightly different in each community both pose risks for a healthy diet.
2)In Canada Close to half (54% and 52%) of the urban- and reserve-based samples reported that
they eat traditional foods at least once a week, and respondents from both groups (76% of urban-
and 52% of reserve-based respondents) expressed interest in consuming traditional foods more
often.
D. The homepage on National Institute of Health
1) Donations can only be stored for a certain amount of time
2)Can only stored for 90 days.
Transition: The need is obvious but so is the solution.
2) Satisfaction Step: Although there are several places to donate to combat hunger. There is only
one place that exist and has only one purpose and that is National Institue of health.
A) On November 22 I accessed “Food insecurity and obesity: research gaps, opportunities, and
challenges”
1. The National Institute of Health is a nonprofit that serves more than 27 institutions.
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2. Their mission is to apply knowledge about living systems to improve health, reduce illness,
and lengthen life.
B. They have 27 institutions, but the best-known location is their main office in Bethesda,
Maryland.
C. You can make an appointment online at [Link].
Transition: You can start solving the global problem of hunger. One little change can go a long
way.
3)Visualization Step
A. The article “Food Insecurity and Obesity: Research Gaps, opportunities. And challenges”
1. The article explains that your donation can help enhance health, lengthen life, reduce illness
and disabilities and health disparities.
2. If the problem isn’t solved, it can have a negative impact among children and adolescents
with a variety of outcomes such as asthma. Among adults it can result in poor dietary qaulity,
depression, cardiometabolic disease, diabetes, and poor diabetes control, and obesity.
B. An estimated 11.8 percent of American households were food insecure at some point during
2017
1. According to the article the effects of food insecurity at various phases of child and adolescent
development are also significant. For example, one study shows that infants and toddlers from
low-income homes experiencing food insecurity were at considerably high developmental risk in
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areas such as social and emotional development than those from low-income households with
food insecurity.
2. Another study found that in large samples of U.S teenagers, food insecurity was associated
with a higher risk of mental disorders, even after controlling from socioeconomic such as
extreme poverty.
Transition: Hopefully by now you are ready to donate, so let me tell you how
Action Step: As you see food insecurity, is a global problem that is shared responsibility of each
of us.
A. You can donate to them by email at National Institute of health
B. Gifts cannot be illegal, endorsements or cash cannot be accepted.
C. If you pressed for time you can make an appointment with them
D.
1. When you register it would at least six weeks to finish
2 Donating will not take that long
3. Knowing that you have given a gift will be much more than waiting for an hour.
Conclusion: I encourage you to live a responsible life, serve others, and take care of your health.
I have provided information about what food insecurity, the dangers of food insecurity and the
reasons for dealing with food insecurity. I have also told the negative effects that it has on
peoples health and well being and how it can be triggered by being poor, environment losses
ineqaulity and other causes.
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Works Cited
MLA Handbook. 9th ed., Modern Language Association of America, 2021. "MLA Style
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Microsoft Word, version 365, Microsoft Corporation, 2022.
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"[Link] Handbook, 9th Edition.
