{"title":"Two Nobel Prizes that Both Fight Starvation, Helicobacter Pylori and WFP","authors":"T. Midtvedt","doi":"10.33552/ajgh.2021.02.000546","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"In 2020 the Nobel Peace prize was awarded to World Food Program (WFP) due to their important job in distributing food and fighting starvation all over the world. Fifteen years earlier the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine was awarded for the discovery of the bacterium Helicobacter pylori. This bacterium – in its own way actually also helps fight starvation. In 2018 it was estimated that across the world 821 million people were going hungry -124 million acutely so [1]. In order to reduce starvation and treat malnutrition WFP for many years have delivered so called food baskets. The actual size and composition of the food basket is closely tailored to local preferences, demographic profile, climate conditions, local coping capacity and existing levels of malnutrition and disease [2]. In 1982 Robin Warren and Barry J. Marshall unexpectedly discovered that inflammation in the stomach (gastritis) as well as ulceration of the stomach or duodenum (peptic ulcer disease) could be the result of an infection caused by a bacterium. In 2005 they jointly were awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine. The infection could be treated by antibiotics. The bacterium was named Helicobacter pylori (H. pylori).","PeriodicalId":72038,"journal":{"name":"Academic journal of gastroenterology & hepatology","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0000,"publicationDate":"2021-04-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Academic journal of gastroenterology & hepatology","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.33552/ajgh.2021.02.000546","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"","JCRName":"","Score":null,"Total":0}
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In 2020 the Nobel Peace prize was awarded to World Food Program (WFP) due to their important job in distributing food and fighting starvation all over the world. Fifteen years earlier the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine was awarded for the discovery of the bacterium Helicobacter pylori. This bacterium – in its own way actually also helps fight starvation. In 2018 it was estimated that across the world 821 million people were going hungry -124 million acutely so [1]. In order to reduce starvation and treat malnutrition WFP for many years have delivered so called food baskets. The actual size and composition of the food basket is closely tailored to local preferences, demographic profile, climate conditions, local coping capacity and existing levels of malnutrition and disease [2]. In 1982 Robin Warren and Barry J. Marshall unexpectedly discovered that inflammation in the stomach (gastritis) as well as ulceration of the stomach or duodenum (peptic ulcer disease) could be the result of an infection caused by a bacterium. In 2005 they jointly were awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine. The infection could be treated by antibiotics. The bacterium was named Helicobacter pylori (H. pylori).
2020年,诺贝尔和平奖被授予世界粮食计划署(WFP),因为他们在世界各地分发食物和抗击饥饿方面做出了重要贡献。15年前,诺贝尔生理学或医学奖被授予幽门螺杆菌的发现。这种细菌实际上也以自己的方式帮助对抗饥饿。据估计,2018年全球有8.21亿人处于饥饿状态,其中1.24亿人处于严重饥饿状态。为了减少饥饿和治疗营养不良,世界粮食计划署多年来一直提供所谓的粮食篮。粮食篮子的实际规模和组成是根据当地的喜好、人口状况、气候条件、当地的应对能力和现有的营养不良和疾病水平密切调整的。1982年,罗宾·沃伦(Robin Warren)和巴里·j·马歇尔(Barry J. Marshall)出人意料地发现,胃炎(胃炎)以及胃或十二指肠溃疡(消化性溃疡疾病)可能是细菌感染的结果。2005年,他们共同获得了诺贝尔生理学或医学奖。这种感染可以用抗生素治疗。这种细菌被命名为幽门螺杆菌(h.p ylori)。