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Weighing the Toll of Food Insecurity
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<blockquote data-quote="cheryl" data-source="post: 1452" data-attributes="member: 1"><p><a href="https://www.usnews.com/news/healthiest-communities/articles/2019-09-11/food-insecurity-tied-to-poor-health-but-not-obesity-in-children" target="_blank"><strong>Weighing the Toll of Food Insecurity - US News</strong></a></p><p></p><p><strong>A new study finds young children in food-insecure homes face a higher risk of poor health, but not obesity.</strong></p><p></p><p>Researchers didn't find a direct link between household food insecurity and obesity except among kids 25 months to 36 months old, who were 24% more likely to be obese than children their age in food-secure households. It's unclear why those children saw higher obesity rates, but they might have been transitioning from baby-friendly foods to normal foods "which, in food-insecure households, may be low-cost, low nutrient-dense food," the study says.</p><p></p><p>The lack of a close tie between food insecurity and obesity may be because obesity rates have risen overall, and that growing up in a low-income environment often means kids are growing up in a less nutritious environment. A <a href="https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/volumes/67/wr/mm6706a3.htm" target="_blank"><u>separate analysis</u></a> of nearly 7,000 kids found that 18.9% of children from the poorest group were obese from 2011-2014, compared with 10.9% of those from the wealthiest group.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="cheryl, post: 1452, member: 1"] [URL='https://www.usnews.com/news/healthiest-communities/articles/2019-09-11/food-insecurity-tied-to-poor-health-but-not-obesity-in-children'][B]Weighing the Toll of Food Insecurity - US News[/B][/URL] [B]A new study finds young children in food-insecure homes face a higher risk of poor health, but not obesity.[/B] Researchers didn't find a direct link between household food insecurity and obesity except among kids 25 months to 36 months old, who were 24% more likely to be obese than children their age in food-secure households.[B] [/B]It's unclear why those children saw higher obesity rates, but they might have been transitioning from baby-friendly foods to normal foods "which, in food-insecure households, may be low-cost, low nutrient-dense food," the study says. The lack of a close tie between food insecurity and obesity may be because obesity rates have risen overall, and that growing up in a low-income environment often means kids are growing up in a less nutritious environment. A [URL='https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/volumes/67/wr/mm6706a3.htm'][U]separate analysis[/U][/URL] of nearly 7,000 kids found that 18.9% of children from the poorest group were obese from 2011-2014, compared with 10.9% of those from the wealthiest group. [/QUOTE]
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