I’m hearing ads on the radio that many in the U.S., including children, are suffering from hunger. Nutrition science journals in the last few years are covering “food insecurity,” which many would assume means not having enough food or fearing the lack of food.
These concerns seem at odds with the fact that two-thirds of us are overweight or obese. So how many of us at normal or below-average weights suffer from food insecurity or hunger?
James Bovard breaks it down for you in an excellent article. Read the whole thing. Some morsels (heh):
- seven times as many (low income) children are obese as are underweight
- 40% of food stamp (SNAP) users are obese, compared to 30% in the overall U.S. adult population
- if the food stamp program would prohibit purchase of sugary drinks, it would prevent 141,000 children from becoming fat and save a quarter million adults from type 2 diabetes
Fat hungry people would be less hungry if they’d cut way back on refined, nutrient-poor carbohydrates, replacing with protein and healthy fats.
Diabetic Mediterranean Diet 