![]() The difference between boys and girls was more intense in rural areas than in cities. Even then, the girls reported seven times as much low energy and 7.4 times more often problems with activities. The scientists adjusted for dietary diversity, BMI, place of residence, cooking place (sleeping room, living room, separate kitchen) distance to a garbage disposal site, presence of animals in house, to isolate the effect of gender on illness. A quarter of the girls and 16% of the boys were food insecure. They asked for tiredness and lack of energy in the previous month for problems with activities for school, work or household due to poor health if they had been ill during the previous month. The scientists noted, among other things, how much and how varied the ate, their length and weight. The teenagers and their family were questioned during the hunger season (the rainy season) and during spring, when there is less food insecurity. But cultural discrimination makes that girls suffer more from situations of shortage. Biologically spoken, they are tougher as teenager they smoke less and show less risk seeking behaviour than boys. In situations of food insecurity, aid workers should take this into account, the authors say. The girls even reported seven times more often difficulties with activities due to poor health, or feeling tired. In food insecure households, girls were twice more likely to report suffering from illness. In food insecurity an average of three girls out of ten reported having been ill during the previous month against two boys out of ten. Scientists of Jimma University (Ethiopia), assisted by American and Flemish scientists, during five years followed two thousand teenagers in as many households, in urban as well as rural communities. ![]() In most studies into the effects of food insecurity, parents were questioned, not their children. It is self-evident that food shortages are not healthy, but up to now nobody hat looked if all children in a family suffer equally, or if there are gender differences. ![]()
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