Sentences with phrase «insecure households»

In food insecure households, federal food assistance program participation generally decreased the odds of being at risk of overweight in girls but not boys.

Mothers in food insecure households are significantly more likely to report symptoms of depression and are more likely to exhibit inattentive or negative parenting behavior than parents in food secure households., Because early childhood development is facilitated by the infant's relationships with caregivers, depressed and negative parenting can and does have adverse effects on a growing child's development.

In Missouri, approximately 50 percent of our students come from low - income and food - insecure households and... View Article

Of households that experience food insecurity, less than two - thirds participate in one of the main federal anti-hunger programs: Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP); the National School Lunch Program; or the Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants, and Children (WIC).38 In part, this is because many food insecure households are not eligible for nutrition assistance or because certain barriers exist, such as the stigma associated with participating in programs designed to benefit low - income families.

The number of children living in food - insecure households was much higher — 13.1 percent.

She arrived in the California, the land of food plenty, only to discover that «47 percent of adults in Ventura County live in food insecure households.»

Finally, before I sign off, the Food Research and Action Center reports that almost 1/4 of all American kids are currently living in food - insecure households.

In 2014, more than 1 in 5 U.S. children lived in food insecure households, a number which underscores the importance of expanding participation in school breakfast.

Sheri pointed out that many kids come from food insecure households and therefore my desire to eliminate all food from the classroom (articulated most succinctly in my «Food in the Classroom Manifesto «-RRB- might be misguided.

-- 16.7 million children lived in food insecure households in 2011.

And at a time when over 17 million American children are growing up in food - insecure households, the House GOP proposes a cut of «about $ 650 million — or 10 percent — from the Women, Infants and Children program that feeds and educates mothers and their children.»

[i]-- 20 % or more of the child population in 36 states and D.C. lived in food insecure households in 2010.

The project asks Americans to upload their breakfast photos to the Web site shareyourbreakfast.com, and for each breakfast photo shared, Kellogg Company will donate up to $ 200,000 — the equivalent of one million school breakfasts to help feed children from food - insecure households.

As the TLT house fills with the aroma of pumpkin pie and cranberry sauce, two thoughts to share: First, every Thanksgiving I take a moment to remind readers that currently one in five American children live in food insecure households.

A reader recently sent me a Reuters article describing a study from Canada which demonstrates (not surprisingly) that adolescents from food insecure households perform better academically and have better behavior in school when the schools provide... [Continue reading]

Almost 7 million kids aged 10 - 17 currently live in food - insecure households, meaning they don't have reliable access to a sufficient quantity of affordable, nutritious food.

A reader recently sent me a Reuters article describing a study from Canada which demonstrates (not surprisingly) that adolescents from food insecure households perform better academically and have better behavior in school when the schools provide meal assistance.

But with one in four Americans living in food insecure households, clearly there is so much more to be done.

Fifty - nine percent of food - insecure households in the survey reported that in the previous month they had participated in one or more of the three largest Federal food and nutrition assistance programs: SNAP, WIC, and school lunch.

By keeping wholesome and nutritious food in our communities and out of our landfills, we can help address the 42 million Americans that live in food insecure households.

Food insecure households lack consistent access to adequate, nutritious food and very low food security is the most severe condition with one or more household members at times reducing their food intake below normal levels.

With access to the food these benefits provide, experts say these children are more likely to do better in school, have better health and do better economically as adults than children that live in chronically food - insecure households.

Not exact matches

That's a big improvement from 2014, when 14 percent of households were food insecure, and from 2011, when the food insecurity rate neared 15 percent in the wake of the Great Recession.

Over two billion people rely on wood for household fuel, for example, and the supply for seventy percent of them is insecure.

Children and adults were food insecure at times during the year in 9.9 percent of households with children and at times, those 3.8 million households were unable to provide adequate, nutritious food for their children.

In 2013, 17.5 million households were food insecure (14.3 percent) and 6.8 million households (5.6 percent) had very low food security, which was also essentially unchanged from the 5.7 percent in 2011 and 2012, according to the USDA report.

We take pride in knowing that Harvest helps people each and every day, and that unfortunately, in the U.S. where approximately 40 % of food goes to waste, still one in seven people are food insecure — that rate is even higher for households with children.

More than 14 % of households in the U.S. were food insecure, in 2009, meaning they did not know where their next meal would come from.

That means a staggering 19 percent of households with children are food insecure.

According to the U.S. Department of Agriculture, 24 percent of rural children lived in poverty and 686,000 rural households with children were food insecure in 2014.

Yet many parents don't agree on what time is the «right» time to make bedtime, and these differing opinions across households often leave moms or dads feeling insecure that their kiddos are going to bed too early or late.

Currently over 15 million American kids live in households that are «food insecure,» that is, in which families don't always know where their next meal is coming from.

Nearly 8 % of American households with children can be categorized as «food insecure» which means that these families worry about not having enough money to buy food and as a result, often skip meals, substitute cheaper food, or eat less.

Because of limited financial resources, households that are food insecure also may use coping strategies to stretch budgets that are harmful for health, such as engaging in cost - related medication underuse, postponing or forgoing preventive or needed medical care, or forgoing the foods needed for special medical diets (e.g., diabetic diets).

In the meantime, I'm mindful of my recent post on the Food Resource and Action Center survey showing that almost one in five U.S. households is presently food - insecure.

Households that are food insecure often skip meals, cut back on the sources, quality and quantity of what they eat, or rely on emergency food.

«Almost a third of the households were food insecure, and more than 16 percent had very low food security, meaning they were skipping meals, at risk for experiencing hunger and probably missing work and school and suffering health problems as a result,» said study lead author Michelle Kaiser, an assistant professor of social work at Ohio State.

Approximately 24 percent of Latino households in the U.S. were food insecure in 2013, compared to 14 percent for Americans overall, according to the U.S. Department of Agriculture.

There are millions of kids in America who the USDA considers «food insecure» — they live in households without regular access to nutritious food.

Whether your cat is hissing at veterinary staff or a newcomer to the household, your cat is feeling vulnerable, threatened, or insecure.

The new evidence comes in a paper in the journal Food Security, «Are food insecure smallholder households making changes in their farming practices?

Food insecurity still persists in the United States; an estimated 14 percent of American households (17.4 million), were food «insecure» in 2014, meaning they had difficulty at some point during the year providing enough food for their families due to a lack of resources, according to a recent report from the U.S. Department of Agriculture.

Approximately 111,279 households in Nebraska were food insecure in 2016 — meaning they didn't know where their next meal was coming from at some point during the last year.

The reasoning behind this proposition is that: A) EBHV programs are designed to serve women categorized as «at - risk» due to a variety of demographic factors, including single - parent household status, age at time of first pregnancy, being categorically undereducated, under or unemployed, and meeting federal standards of living at or below the poverty line; B) these programs serve women during pregnancy and / or shortly after the birth of their children, offering an excellent chance for the early prevention of trauma exposure; and C) intervention services are provided at the same times that attachment (whether secure or insecure) is being developed between mothers and children, providing the opportunity that generational risk may be mitigated.

In fact, approximately 106,834 households across Nebraska were food insecure in 2012.

According to CSIR studies, 13 million people go hungry every day, 20 % of households are food insecure, South Africans throw away almost 10 million tonnes of food per year (more than the UK), 30 % of all agricultural production ends up as waste to landfill, and the total cost of food waste is estimated at R61.5 billion per year.

At a time when Canadians are grappling with historically high household debt levels — upwards of 163 per cent according to Statistics Canada — young adults are feeling insecure about their knowledge of the financial implications of homeownership.