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Targeting Obesity Alongside Hunger
from washingtonpost.com
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From The Washington Post -- For years, the government has treated hunger and obesity as separate issues. But with food stamp use at a record high and obesity spreading as a pandemic, the government is starting to look at the problems under the same lens. Read this article to see what the public health advocates' arguments are versus the anti-hunger advocates' views.
“The worsening economic crunch is causing the tab for food assistance programs to balloon, and with the rising costs has come an intensifying debate over whether -- and how -- the U.S. government can tackle simultaneously the paradoxically linked problems of hunger and obesity.”
