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 hospital’s 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 don’t stretch as far,’’ Sandel said. “It’s 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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One guy on the board posted “Based on the photo provided, the mother of these two children had the hundreds of dollars needed for the visable tatoos and piercings she is sporting”
What a great observation. It really says it all, doesn’t it?
Once upon a time schools taught basic nutrition and real home economics, which could be quite helpful in stretching food dollars. I suspect that isn’t happening these days so that everyone can get double helpings of social justice, racial butthurtedness, and queer normalcy agitprop.
I bet a lot of the “parents” of these kids have big-screen TVs, cable, cell phones, liquor, cigs, and even cars. And probably a weight problem.
In my experience a lot of urban poor don’t cook both due to laziness and the fact that they can’t carry much in the way of groceries on the bus.
Instead you’ll find them at McDonalds
Oh, puleez! What a load of hooey. We didn't have a stove for about 15 years because we wisely put a freezer in the space that was for the stove. We used a microwave, instead. And I can cook a delicious whole turkey for Thanksgiving in one so don't give that song and dance. It's not rocket science to putting a healthy meal on the table. Every heard of fresh fruits and vegetables? Put down the cigarettes, alcohol and crack pipes and these losers might be able to afford to provide for their children.
Yep, sad but true. I’d say if you looked at how/what the “mother” spent the money on in these instances, it wouldn’t be food.
It would shock you how many kids go without eating because meth and crack have a higher priority.
There are lots of excuses and very few of the legitimate ones have anything to do with being poor.
Okay...I am confused. Have we an obesity problem or a starvation problem?
Please... I don’t know where to turn.
I find it interesting that they say, “Many families are unable to afford enough healthy food to feed their children,” the money word being “healthy” in front of the word food. Why didn’t they just say food and leave out the word “healthy?”
This appears to be another propaganda piece. Reader beware.
The Left is having trouble keeping the lies straight. Should the government step in because children are obese or should the government step in because children are starving?
Two things are certain, however:
1). The government should step in;
2). It’s for The Children.
I see “poor” people who are on welfare all the time who have the latest cell phones available with the expensive plans that have internet access...etc. Maybe they should spend the money on food!
Where’s WIC?? They give away free milk, oj, peanut butter, all that stuff to pregnant women and young children
Heck, I know someone who gets it and they go to her house and put the stuff in the refrigerator for her!!
Hey you cynical sams and gloomy guses!
El zee-rho and mochelle are winning the war against chilhood obesity!
I mean sheesh...
Can I get a good press secretary ovah heah? We need some spin pronto!
Here is an issue going unreported in the MSM.
Here in FL we have a destroyed construction industry. Many men are working 2 days a week instead of 5. They get paid by the hour so they have no cash.
My son has told me many of the young and middle age men are coming into work and they have no food, haven’t been able to eat. There are a lot of them that are divorced with kids, so they have child support to pay and that leaves them nothing to live on.
My son’s been quite upset about it. We’ve fed a few of them.
Tells you all you need to know. These people aren't dead weight. They're gangrene. I'll agree that it's not the dead flesh's fault if you (the liberals) will agree that it must be cut off.
My mother knew how to feed 5 people on a pound of ground beef and what she could get out of the garden; or she would literally go to the meat shop and get a bag of bones to crack with a hammer (get to the marrow, you know) and make soup, if we couldn't afford the ground beef. She would ask the grocer for fruit ready to be thrown in the garbage, pare off the bad spots, and make a cut-up fruit salad or juice the good half of the orange!
And at no point did we kids think ourselves deprived. Far from it. We always had our parents' love, attention, discipline, guidance, and care.
Until his last 6 years on the job, my father never made more thn the minimum wage, and yet at the end of his life he owned his own home and had savings: not debt, savings. Which he bequeathed to us, providing to the last!
Boston has deprived children, that I believe. Not because of the scarcity of plain good food, but the scarcity of plain good parenting.
Yep. I wonder how many of these families in ‘poverty’ with ‘starving’ kids have multiple flat screen t.v.s, cell phones, computers, etc...
My sister’s husband got laid off last year and they resorted to the ‘food card’ program. They were GIVING away all the stuff they were getting from the food bank for it was more than their cupboards could hold!
I feel for those guys like crazy, but I bet you that the kids of these hard working construction workers are NOT getting thin an starving.
Growing up, my parents had some really tight times between times of employment. We kids had nearly exclusively cream of wheat for breakfast and a peanut butter sandwich for lunch.
BS, total BS......
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