Half of US children on Food Stamps

[Stormieweather]

1) I can see how they took the study results (49% of all children are on food stamps AT SOME POINT by age 20) and used canny wording to make it seem like something else.

2) Obesity and malnutrion do go hand in hand, as TW says. I'm a newly educated individual on nutrition, thanks to my bodybuilding, and am of the opinion that the gov'mnt and public officials are doing a piss poor job of both teaching proper food choices and offering decent food to the poor and to the schools.

[SamIam]

Originally Posted by Stormieweather

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2) Obesity and malnutrion do go hand in hand, as TW says. I'm a newly educated individual on nutrition, thanks to my bodybuilding, and am of the opinion that the gov'mnt and public officials are doing a piss poor job of both teaching proper food choices and offering decent food to the poor and to the schools.

I don't know about schools. The poor who go to soup kitchens must take what is offered. Food pantry outfits around here offer macaroni and more macaroni -also lots of sphagetti. You also get canned food made by companies you never have heard of. Very seldom do I see these places hand out milk, fresh vegetables or fruit. Never is there whole grain anything.

On the other hand, you can buy what you want with "food stamps". My diet is far from perfect, but I shop the sales and by green leafies, fruit, lean meat and chicken. I see no reason why other food stamp recipients can't do the same thing.

[wolf]

Originally Posted by SamIam

Very seldom do I see these places hand out milk, fresh vegetables or fruit. Never is there whole grain anything.

Homeless people (at least the ones that I deal with) are notoriously choosy. They won't eat that kind of stuff.

[tw]

Originally Posted by Stormieweather

2) Obesity and malnutrion do go hand in hand, as TW says. I'm a newly educated individual on nutrition, thanks to my bodybuilding, and am of the opinion that the gov'mnt and public officials are doing a piss poor job of both teaching proper food choices and offering decent food to the poor and to the schools.

From The Economist of 29 Oct 2009

Behind the silver lining, though, looms a black cloud: not all omega-3s are created equal. The good ones (long-chain fatty acids) come from expensive sources such as fish. The far less beneficial ones (short-chain fatty acids) come from cheap plant oils like flax seed and soya, as well as from leafy green vegetables. No prizes for guessing which type of omega-3s some less-scrupulous manufacturers have chosen to put in their products in order to imply health benefits.

The problem of dubious nutrition and health claims for foodstuffs is now being addressed on both sides of the Atlantic. America’s Food and Drug Administration (FDA) said on October 20th that it would overhaul the regulation of such claims on food labels and issue new standards early next year.

See the FDAs recent battle with Kellogg's for adverising nutrition that does not exist.

How did Dannon increase sales by 30%? Advertised 'Digitaliss Rectilitis' or whatever that mysterious substance is. What does it do? Nobody can say. But using their 'Saddam WMD' logic, 30% bought Dannon yogurt. Lying is acceptable as long as so many insist on staying dumb by using 'Saddam WMD' reasoning.

European Union is also involved in a long investigation about so many foods promoting mythical nutritional claims.

On October 1st the EFSA announced its decisions on 523 of a total of around 4,000 claims. About two-thirds of its decisions were negative. In one, for example, the panel decided there was no causal relationship between the consumption of dried cocoa extract and the maintenance or achievement of normal body weight.

Current standards permit so much lying that even fat free cookies were promoted for a healthy diet.