Yet another very interesting article; where researchers
tested the effects of food security on the physical and psychological quality
of health of children. The study concluded that there was indeed a correlation
between food security and a child’s overall quality of health. Researchers
found that children, who lived in food insecure households, had an overall poorer
quality of psychological and physical health.
This makes complete sense to me, because I would expect that
a child who grows up in an environment of high stress levels, the child will
observe and take on the family stress themselves; bringing on poor mental
health, due to worrying, and feeling fearful; in addition to a poor physical
health due to not enough adequate nutrition food sources.
Once again, this is another article that shows the effects
of food and environment on health and overall well-being. It should now be more
apparent that there is a significant correlation between ones environment, food
availability/quality, and their health/well-being. Knowing this, I find it hard
to understand why there is not more action towards preventing these easily
preventable health problems amongst neighborhoods with a high prevalence of
food injustice and security.
~Meron A.
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