As You Sit in the Waiting Room of a Doctor's

As you sit in the waiting room of a doctor's office leafing through a magazine, you see a letter to the editor about world hunger. In it, the author stated, "…and thus, hunger worsens poverty....". Does hunger worsen poverty?

A) Yes, but it can be corrected with appropriate access to reproductive health care.
B) No; if hungry people work hard enough they can work to get themselves out of poverty.
C) Yes, it propagates poverty by increasing the death rate and leaving many families as single-parent households.
D) Yes, hunger makes poverty worse by robbing a person of the good health and the physical and mental energy needed to be active and productive.