Posted on 07/28/2011 7:10:18 AM PDT by MNDude
Doctors at a major Boston hospital report they are seeing more hungry and dangerously thin young children in the emergency room than at any time in more than a decade of surveying families.
Many families are unable to afford enough healthy food to feed their children, say the Boston Medical Center doctors. The resulting chronic hunger threatens to leave scores of infants and toddlers with lasting learning and developmental problems.
Before the economy soured in 2007, 12 percent of youngsters age 3 and under whose families were randomly surveyed in the hospitals emergency department were significantly underweight. In 2010, that percentage jumped to 18 percent, and the tide does not appear to be abating, said Dr. Megan Sandel, an associate professor of pediatrics and public health at BMC.
Food is costing more, and dollars dont stretch as far, Sandel said. Its hard to maintain a diet that is healthy.
The emergency room survey found a similarly striking increase in the percentage of families with children who reported they did not have enough food each month, from 18 percent in 2007 to 28 percent in 2010.
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If they are hungry they may want to look into what the parents are ding with their food stamps? Many do sell them so they can have fun with the money while the kids are looked at as only there because of the aid they get for them.Schools give free lunches and food to go home over the weekend,city parks provide linch 5 days a week,places like the salvation army as well as many other places provide hot meals twice a day for anyone who walks in,food banks gvie food away and as menrioned prior there are also food stamps if they kids are hungry it is their parent’s fault.
My wife has a friend in Baltimore who sells her food stamps top buy gas and cigs. She feeds the kid the cheap Mac and cheese 3 times a day.
No,the kids aren’t, but the workers are.
The workers have to pay a court appointed child support amount, and it doesn’t change on a dime because one week they earn $400 and the next $125. They just have to pay a set amount.
So they end up owing, on the wrong side of the legal system and hungry to boot.
Dumb teenage mothers.
You can eat cheaply if you know how to cook.
Government should make them trade kids.
This is not meant to be a joke. It's the simple truth.
Record number on food stamps.
Record number of obese people.
Coincidence? I think not.
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