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Not Enough Food (Instead of Too Much) Is Also a Problem in the United States
Mike Mitka
JAMA. 2002;288:1462-1463.
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In the economically upbeat years just prior to the current US recession, too many people in this country went hungry because they had trouble affording food, a new report suggests. And now that times are not as good, say some experts commenting on the study, Hunger and Food Insecurity in the Fifty States: 1998-2000, congressional action spurred by the administration may make things worse.
The report, issued by the Center on Hunger and Poverty at the Heller School for Social Policy and Management at Brandeis University, Waltham, Mass, states that more than 11 million households (10.77% of US households), containing more than 33 million individuals, reported experiencing food insecurity and that 3.3 million of these households (3.27%) reported the presence of hunger at home. As defined in the report, food insecurity occurs whenever the availability of nutritionally adequate and safe foods, or the ability to acquire acceptable foods . . . [Full Text of this Article]
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