Poor Nutrition As It Relates To Low Income
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...used in the context of poor diet, low economic status, and poor nutrition. It is often broadly used to describe a situation in which people have an expectation of having a continuing supply of food. The inability to be assured that an individual will have a continuing supply of food is usually directly related to the ability of that individual to have enough resources to pay for food or nutrition. Food insecurity is the state when access to nutritionally adequate and healthy food are either not available, limits or uncertain and the ability to obtain the required food is the result of socially unacceptable manners.
THE LINK BETWEEN POVERTY AND NUTRITION
Poverty and food insecurity have a negative influence on the diet of low income children (Childhood Hunger, 1999). Limited household income is directly related to food insecurity and both are associated with low intakes of fruits and vegetables (Childhood...
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