Buck Ninety Nine ... horrible stuff. Really bad for you.
Posted on 09/21/2023 9:41:04 AM PDT by daniel1212
Food security for a household means access by all members at all times to enough food for an active, healthy life. Food security includes at a minimum:
The ready availability of nutritionally adequate and safe foods. Assured ability to acquire acceptable foods in socially acceptable ways...
Households that report three or more conditions that indicate food insecurity are classified as "food insecure."..
The questions cover a wide range of severity of food insecurity....
Survey Questions Used by USDA to Assess Household Food Security
1. "We worried whether our food would run out before we got money to buy more." Was that often, sometimes, or never true for you in the last 12 months?
2. "The food that we bought just didn't last and we didn't have money to get more." Was that often, sometimes, or never true for you in the last 12 months?
3. "We couldn't afford to eat balanced meals." Was that often, sometimes, or never true for you in the last 12 months?
4. In the last 12 months, did you or other adults in the household ever cut the size of your meals or skip meals because there wasn't enough money for food? (Yes/No)
5. (If yes to question 4) How often did this happen—almost every month, some months but not every month, or in only 1 or 2 months?
6. In the last 12 months, did you ever eat less than you felt you should because there wasn't enough money for food? (Yes/No)
7. In the last 12 months, were you ever hungry, but didn't eat, because there wasn't enough money for food? (Yes/No)
8. In the last 12 months, did you lose weight because there wasn't enough money for food? (Yes/No)
9. In the last 12 months did you or other adults in your household ever not eat for a whole day because there wasn't enough money for food? (Yes/No)
10. (If yes to question 9) How often did this happen—almost every month, some months but not every month, or in only 1 or 2 months?
(Questions 11-18 were asked only if the household included children age 0-17)
11. "We relied on only a few kinds of low-cost food to feed our children because we were running out of money to buy food." Was that often, sometimes, or never true for you in the last 12 months?
12. "We couldn't feed our children a balanced meal, because we couldn't afford that." Was that often, sometimes, or never true for you in the last 12 months?
13. "The children were not eating enough because we just couldn't afford enough food." Was that often, sometimes, or never true for you in the last 12 months?
14. In the last 12 months, did you ever cut the size of any of the children's meals because there wasn't enough money for food? (Yes/No)
15. In the last 12 months, were the children ever hungry but you just couldn't afford more food? (Yes/No)
16. In the last 12 months, did any of the children ever skip a meal because there wasn't enough money for food? (Yes/No)
17. (If yes to question 16) How often did this happen—almost every month, some months but not every month, or in only 1 or 2 months?
18. In the last 12 months did any of the children ever not eat for a whole day because there wasn't enough money for food? (Yes/No)
And given that most people exaggerate, including problems (I do not think that is an exaggeration), esp. when dealing with memory of past experiences as "wasn't enough money" (while a Study says authors exaggerate their findings in paper abstracts ,"
plus the scope of these answers on experiences being over the course of a whole year;
in addition to the exaggerated nature of a condition based upon affirming three or more negative experiences,
then "food insecurity" is a grossly misleading term, esp. as typically used, as they ignore the "wide range of severity of food insecurity" from Least severe to Most severe.
In which answering "sometimes" to the question,
Was this statement often, sometimes, or never true for you in the last 12 months? "We worried whether our food would run out before we got money to buy more,"
means that "Study finds nearly 25% of Americans are food insecure." (https://www.cbsnews.com/news/one-in-four-americans-food-insecure/)
And, Almost 30 million Americans didn't have enough food to eat .(https://www.cnn.com/2020/07/31/us/food-insecurity-30-million-census-survey/index.html)
I suppose that why we have an obesity epidemic....................
Require all female heads of housholds to get norplant as a condition of receiving public assistance.
It never has been, it isn’t now, and it will never be the constitutional responsibility of the government to feed people or tell them what to eat.
Forgot to ask them how many free meals their kids consumed at school or daycare
Our ES was free breakfast and lunch for ALL so no kid would be “ embarrassed”
Summers all the schools, camps, daycares turned into “ free” feeding centers to continue feeding kids twice a day plus sending home food backpacks to cover the weekends
Yes America is truly a heartless land of starving the poor
Cheap food is horrid for us. And causes obesity.
In which answering "sometimes" to the question, Was this statement often, sometimes, or never true for you in the last 12 months? "We worried whether our food would run out before we got money to buy more," means that "Study finds nearly 25% of Americans are food insecure." (https://www.cbsnews.com/news/one-in-four-americans-food-insecure/) And, Almost 30 million Americans didn't have enough food to eat .(https://www.cnn.com/2020/07/31/us/food-insecurity-30-million-census-survey/index.html)
Actually 2 more questions would have to be answered as "sometimes" or "Yes," , such as:
3. "We couldn't afford to eat balanced meals." Was that often, sometimes, or never true for you in the last 12 months?" 6. "In the last 12 months, did you ever eat less than you felt you should because there wasn't enough money for food?" (Yes/No)
Cheap food?
Been to a restaurant lately?...........
Buck Ninety Nine ... horrible stuff. Really bad for you.
Ok. Good point.
Indeed: Over 73% of U.S. Adults Overweight or Obese
Over 80% of people with diabetes are overweight or obese
And in 1999, Annual Deaths Attributable to Obesity in the United States JAMA Network https://jamanetwork.com › journals › jama › fullarticle by DB Allison · 1999 · Cited by 2898 — Based on published CPS1 statistics, we estimated that 330,324 annual deaths are attributable to overweight or obesity;
Of course, one must know how to cook ...
That’s part of the problem. Too many people are too lazy and ignorant to cook.
Catsup optional???
Whatever floats your boat ... I prefer bouillon, onions, and a touch of chili powder.
How many beans are in that bag?
Do you smoke - yes or no
Do you drink alcohol - yes or no
Do you have cable TV - yes or no
Do you have a cell phone - yes or no (and if yes how many in your household)
Do you drink starbucks coffee (or similar high end coffee) yes or no
Do you eat out more then once a month - yes or no (if so how many times do you eat out in a month)
I have been poor. Few people realize where the holes in their pockets are (so it is good to keep track of your spending habits).
It is funny to see the “homeless” on the street smoking. Cigarettes are expensive. If you got money for cigarettes you have money for food.
All designed to keep the welfare system growing and growing and growing...
“When you laid out 800 bucks for your latest tattoo, did you forget that money was supposed to be for food”?
If it were actually true that 25% of Americans are hungry, I could only conclude that it’s all the obese poor people stealing their food that could be causing it.
I thought all problems were solved when Lyndon Johnson declared War on Poverty back in 1964.
As one Hillbilly said...”If he wants me in his war on poverty he is going to have to draft me!”
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