Supposedly food stamps — by which the government forces some people to pay for other people’s food — are a necessary evil, required to provide subsistence sustenance to those who are temporarily out of work. Yet we read this:
The U.S. Department of Agriculture looked at data from 2007 through 2010, then compared average weights of those on food stamps — officially called the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program — to those who weren’t. …
Food stamp recipients are far more likely to be obese than poor people who are eligible but don’t take the help. And they’re even more likely to be obese than those with higher incomes.
Fully 40% of food stamp recipients are obese, the study found, compared with just over 30% of those who don’t participate in the program.
Children of families on food stamps were also more likely to be obese than children in the other two groups, as were older adults.
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12 comments:
Did someone say grinch and mitchell?
This article is total bullcrap. Anyone who has done even the tiniest bit of reading into why impoversihed people are often obese knows that it is largely due to the cost of healthy eating. If you have a limited amount of money to feed your children and unhealthy foods cost less than healthy ones, you're going to feed them the unhea;thy stuff to make your money stretch further.
SAY WHAT?
Your saying that because we are black.
Wrong 1:59. You are falling for the propaganda. It's about portion control. You don't need 1/2 lb of lunch meat on your sandwich. They do so they buy baloney because it's cheap.
A bag of apples costs less than a box of cookies. A bunch of celery or a bag of carrots less than a bag of chips or Doritos. A whole chicken should feed more than it does. No single one person needs to eat a chicken breast that weighs a pound in and of itself.
Throughout the history of civilization, being fat meant you were rich because you had plenty to eat. The poor stayed hungry and bony. but now the opposite is true. Everything is 180 degrees out of phase in modern America.
2:47 is correct. I volunteered in a titled elementary school. Almost all of them were fat and constantly hungry.
When I was on food stamps (recently), there was always money left on the card each month. There was more than my son and I could possibly eat. (we're not fat and have a work ethic}
Once I called and the recording said my balance was $1,150! Of course, we only shopped for low prices and didn't ever buy lobster and filet.
They are fat because all they do is eat and lay around. Getting up beating the streets looking for a job would burn too many calories!
My food stamp card EBT, has so much on it we eat steak, raspberries, strawberries, Ben & Jerry's Ice cream, crab, shrimp, all the good stuff! We get so much money it is ridiculous, I ain't never going back to work!
They need more protein. That is what stops hunger. Money Money, not the people eating what they can afford.
and have many tattoos i phones and fancy painted finger and toe nails to boot.
When I was on work release in jail, guys there were letting other people on the outside use their Food cards, and getting money put on their accounts for that use.
When locked up in jail your not supposed to be getting food stamps, the jail is feeding you!
What needs to be done is a photo of who the card is issued to, that would cut down on a lot of fraud. ACLU, and NAACP would raise hell though.
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