Question

What is chronic hunger ?
A. Which persists only during a particular part of the season.
B. When diet is persistently inadequate in terms of quality and quantity.
C. Both of these
D. None of these

Answer 1

Hint:
Hunger is one of the most drastic and critical conditions for the development of any individual and the whole state, it adversely affects the Health and wealth of the country and the individual.

Complete answer:
Hunger can be defined as the state when you have instant craving and the urgent requirement for the food. And a person can’t attain the proper requirement of the food and the nutrients from the food that they take on a daily basis.

Hunger is mainly of two types one is acute hunger and one is chronic hunger.

Acute hunger is defined as the season persistent of hunger in the community for a specific period of time and for specific nutrition.

Whereas chronic hunger is defined as the state in which there is long term unavailability of food and the proper nutrition in terms of quality as well as quantity in the population this condition is known as chronic hunger.

If proper steps are not taken against acute hunger then this acute hunger gets converted into chronic hunger and it adversely affects the development of the person as well as the nation.

The hunger which persists only during a particular part of season is considered acute hunger as it is a short term hunger and doesn't exist for a long term.

So from the above detail of hunger we can say that chronic hunger is when diet is persistently inadequate in terms of quality and also quantity.

Therefore the correct answer is B

Note:
There are so many causes of hunger some of them are :-
Poverty
Lack of job service
Poor infrastructure of the nation
War like condition
Natural disaster
Lowering of the nutritional value of the food grains.