Letters to the Editor
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if they're so worried about people getting fat on food stamps...
...why not expand the WIC voucher program to people besides pregnant/nursing mothers, babies, and small children? Maybe to everyone on food stamps in addition to food stamps?
I've never been on WIC, but I have seen the lists of "approved" foods: things like milk, cheese, dry beans, rice, eggs, bread, fresh fruits and vegetables, etc.
The whole idea behind WIC was that mothers and babies needed certain HEALTHY foods for the best start in life, but those foods were often not purchased by low-income women for a variety of reasons (cost and ignorance being the two main ones). The thing is, though, those foods are good for pretty much everybody regardless of age.
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Obesity a food value issue not food volume
When food money is stretched, poor Americans try to get as much volume as possible for the money and the only way to do that is to go heavy on starch, Rice, Beans, Potatoes, and cheap noodles, and that causes obesity, and all the attended problems of heart, and Diabetes.
In other times and places it is vegetables and whole grains that feed the poor, but with the move to cities and a processed starch diet obesity rises again, even as diseases of malnutrition also rise.
But that is too much nuance for minds that really couldn't care anyway and any excuse to ignore the plight of others will be jumped on like a frog on a bug.