How Childhood Hunger Can Change Adult Personality

http://healthland.time.com/2013/04/11/how-childhood-hunger-can-change-adult-personality/

     According to studies, children who have suffered from starvation within some of their earliest stages in life, carry bad side-effects with them for the rest of their lives.  From studies that have been carried out from the 1970s, researchers and scientists found that adult who suffered from undernourishment in young stages of life are less open and less willing to try new things and experiences to those who were fed properly.  Adult who had starved as children were notably more violent than some who received good nourishment after suffering from starvation.  People who were malnourished when they were younger also tend to be generically more anxious and more eager than those who were not.

     The author of this article, Maia Szalavitz, wanted to show the horrible, and more than not, unseen side of hunger that affect people forever.  Though people think of starvation as a temporary thing, it can pass on and continue to develop in a person's mind and change them drastically.  Szalavits entwines facts, quotes, statistics, stories, and many appeals to pathos to create this article.  Through it all, she sends an obvious message, starvation and depravity of food can really hurt people, but not only for a little while.