Providing Healthy Food With
Problem
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Unhealthy food choices in the SNAP program contributing to childhood obesity.
- Junk food
- Heart failure
- Hypertension
- Irregular cholesterol levels
- Type 2 Diabetes
- Stroke
- Lower nutritional intake overall
- Unemployment
Kaitlyn Thomas
Advantages
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Disadvantages
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- Reduces risk of obesity, heart disease, and more.
- Improves lifestyle
- Stimulates economy
"First, they reduce public health costs directly and indirectly associated with obesity, unfitness for certain jobs, and susceptibility to other health afflictions."
- Reduce participation
- Reluctance to cook
- Increase childhood obesity
- Increase food insecurity
- Costly
- More time-consuming
Feasibility Recommendations
- Make healthier foods more affordable than unhealthy foods.
- Make easy to cook meals that aren't time consuming and are still nutritious.
Not feasible
- Current law prohibits defferential treatment of snap recipients in grocery stores
- SNAP recipients will generally dislike being restricted
- SNAP recipients will drop out of program
Introduction
Solution
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Modifying Food Choices
What is SNAP?
- Reduces poverty
- Reduces food insecurity
- Stimulates the economy
- "Modernize" Thrifty Food plan (TFP)
- Reduce junk food choices
- Increase healthier food
What can you buy with SNAP?
(Only food products)
- Fruits
- Vegetables
- Grains
- Meats
- Dairy
- Plants and seeds
Overview Data
- 17% of children had obesity from 2021-2022
- Roughly 12.8% of Households in the U.S. are food insecure
- Data
- Problem
- Solution
- Advantages to solution
- Disadvantages to solution
- Feasibility
- Recommendations