I realize I recently posted an article about how reading Fox News makes you dumber, but I stumbled upon this article by Fox News Latino that I'm going post here anyway. It goes with that other report I posted here about the stunted growth in just one generation of Guatemalan kids between those raised in the US and those raised in Guatemala. That post is here. This quick article here has very recent data about kiddos in Guatemala and the very real malnutrition that exists.

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More than 2,000 Guatemalan kids died of hunger last year
http://latino.foxnews.com/latino/lifestyle/2011/01/07/guatemalan-kids-died-hunger-year/

Published January 07, 2011 | EFE

More than 2,000 children under 5 died in Guatemala during the first 10 months of 2010 as a consequence of illnesses caused by malnutrition, according to a report presented Friday by the national ombud's office.

The report is based on statistics of the Epidemiology Center of the Public Health Ministry covering the period from Jan. 1-Oct. 31, 2010.

"It's worrying that mortality from hunger is double that of deaths from violence. Thousands of children are estimated to be at risk and there is no sufficient effort being made to save them from this grave situation," ombud Sergio Morales told the media.

Eighty-four percent of the youngsters died at home, without any kind of medical care, according to the report.

Most of the children died of respiratory infections and diarrhea, ailments caused by high levels of malnutrition.

Ministry figures show that one in every two Guatemalan children under 5 suffer from malnutrition, as a consequence of the poverty and extreme poverty in which more than 52 percent of the country's 14.4 million inhabitants live.

Most of the children who died were concentrated in provinces that make up Guatemala's "dry corridor," a strip that runs through the country from east to northeast, which during the last two years has suffered intense droughts blamed on climate change.