Child hunger is rampant. The water shortage is dire.

到处都是饥饿的儿童；水资源缺乏情况严重。

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Most studies to date have offered only snapshots of child health, assessing the short-term impact of hunger over a given period of time.

迄今为止，大多数研究只提供小孩健康的短期情况，以评估在给定的时间内，饥饿对他们产生的短期影响。

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Research in recent years has established that hunger in the prenatal period and in infancy deprives a child of the nourishment the brain needs to grow properly.

近些年的研究已经确认，饥饿如果发生在产前和婴儿时期，孩子的大脑就无法获取使其正常发育的营养。

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Especially troubling,he said, is that there were more than five hundred thousand families in which a child experienced hunger multiple times during the year.

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Because while it might seem counterintuitive, child hunger and child obesity are really just two sides of the same coin.

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"With one child dying every five seconds from hunger-related causes, the time to act is now, " Brown stressed.

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Mr Mitchell told the BBC's Politics Show that if the government were to meet its eight Millennium development goals - including eradicating extreme hunger and reduce child mortality - it would have to "operate where poverty is greatest".

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