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Two billion people worldwide don’t get the micronutrients they need. Micronutrients are essential vitamins and minerals that the body requires in small amounts. Ranging from vitamin A to zinc, they include folate, iodine, iron, selenium, and vitamin C. Deficiencies in these micronutrients usually occur when someone’s diet lacks an adequate variety of vegetables, fruit, and protein sources.

Lack of micronutrients compromises health even if the diet provides enough calories. Though less dramatic than outright starvation, micronutrient shortages can seriously damage one’s health. Hence it is called "hidden hunger."

Micronutrient deficiencies can also result from relying too heavily on sugars, starches, and processed food for calories, as frequently occurs in wealthy countries. Increasingly this is becoming a problem in other countries that turn to fast foods and other Western products.

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Smart Moves: Avoiding Illness and Disease

Learning how disease spreads, you may worry about all the ways you could get sick. But please don’t. These simple steps will do a lot to keep illness away.

General Suggestions

• Wash your hands with soap and clean water before eating. It’s one of the most effective ways to prevent illness. Wash up after you use the bathroom too.
• If you doubt the safety of your drinking water, boil it for at least a minute.
• Never drink water straight from a lake, river, or stream-especially if you’re close to a dam, farm, or canal.
• Don’t eat extremely rare meat.
• Be sure your vaccinations are up to date.
• Get enough sleep. Fatigue weakens your body’s ability to fight disease.

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Most of the electricity used for running computers, lights, television sets, and video game systems is generated by power plants that burn fossil fuels to make steam to turn a turbine that spins a generator. Since the burning of fossil fuels adds greenhouse gases to the air, any reduction in their use will help turn the problem around. The bottom line is that the less electricity we use, the less we need to burn fossil fuels.

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Yes, in surprising ways that no one can anticipate. For example, the Gulf Stream, a powerful ocean current that runs from the southeastern U.S. to northern Europe, keeps huge areas of Europe warm enough to support agriculture. Melting ice in the north Atlantic could cool the Gulf Stream, which would, in turn, bring colder weather to much of Europe. While this would not occur overnight, it is possible. Indeed, fossil evidence indicates that it may have happened several times in the past.

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Absolutely! Swimming or bathing in water contaminated with bacteria or disease-causing parasites can have the same negative effects as drinking the water. Disease-causing organisms can enter the body through cuts in the skin, and even through your eyes and nose. In addition, if you accidentally swallow any water while swimming, it’s as bad as drinking it.

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Anti-bacterial soap kills some bacteria, but it does very little to stop the spread of viruses and other microbes, especially if these "germs" are found in the water you are washing with. Washing your hands or food in water contaminated with parasites such as "crypto" can actually help spread them to your food. It is also important to note that because of the excessive use of antibiotics, many strains of bacteria have become resistant to standard anti-bacterial soap.

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