Child Hunger In America

The United States is known as the wealthiest country in the world. But, there are many people that can't afford to buy food for their families, many are also homeless. “While hunger affects people of all ages, it's particularly devastating for children even short-term episodes of hunger can cause lasting damage."(“Child Nutrition Programs") Child hunger in the United States is caused by poverty, unemployment, food insecurity, and food shortage; however there are many solutions to this problem like FRAC strategies, food banks, summer feeding programs, and backpack feeding programs.

Nowadays, hunger is not only linked with food it is also related to the family income level, also, it represents the feeling of starving to the time that it is disturbing or even frustrating. Oxford dictionary define hunger as “A feeling of discomfort or weakness caused by lack of food, coupled with the desire to eat.” Indeed, most people would admit that when someone is starving, they are not performing to their absolute potential. This sense of resentment and anger when one is craving for food is prompted by a decline in the body’s blood- glucose level. In this case if the level declines, the human brain will recognize it as a threatening situation. The leading cause of hunger among

Considering the following statistics, it is clear why Hunger Free Colorado’s work is so important: Nearly 1 in 7 Coloradans struggled with hunger in 2013, facing times when there was not enough money to buy food for their families or themselves (Colman-Jenson, Gregory, & Singh, 2013). More than 1 in 5 Colorado households with children (22%) reported food hardship, facing financial challenges to put food on the table (Food Research and Action Center, 2013). More than 1 in 8 Coloradans lived in poverty, including 1 in 6 kids, during 2013 (Bishaw & Fontenot, 2014).

Hunger is considered huge issue in the United States. When it comes to managing food sources, it is easy to get predications from children based on their immediate experiences of food rather than parental reports that rely mostly on the economic value such as mother, households etc.… because such predications for instance, cannot be more accurate as children express their felling just in daily basis. In the published article at San Diego State University on February 20.2017, "Children Are Aware of Food Insecurity and Take Responsibility for Managing Food Resources’’. Farm et al made extensive research about this important topic, and wrote surveys addressing their reports after the information they collected from the

Most people in the United States today are unaware of the increasing numbers of child hunger throughout the country. Today, a staggering one in five kids struggle with hunger in our own country (Francisco 18). Not only does it affect their concentration and grades in school, but also their overall health. Over 1.02 billion people in the world are considered to be malnourished, and hunger and malnutrition is the leading cause of child deaths, which accounts for 6 million children each year (Nah and Chau). When most people think of children and families going hungry, they think that it is just a problem in other countries. However, there is an increasing amount of children and their families in North Carolina

You may think child hunger is only in a certain area or somewhere where it's really poor, but in reality the U.S has some crisis to and child hunger is one of them. Solving child hunger is not an easy thing to accomplish in solving, but in the U.S we can make a change by donating to food programs. Donating to food programs is not the only choice you can join the fight against child hunger, pack groceries, serve a meal, change a life by giving and pledge to volunteer. By helping and donating you just not only help provide plenty of meals for children around the U.S so that no child goes hungry, but change their lives and make them have a food-secure household. These are many ways people around the U.S are solving the problem to stop child hunger

If I could change one thing about my community, it would be how we deal with the issue of childhood hunger. It often goes unnoticed, but there are many children going hungry at night. It is a real issue in America and here in the Birmingham area. No child should ever go to bed hungry at night wondering where their next meal is going to come from. That is why I believe our business community should partner with local non-profits and churches to develop more community gardens. Community gardens are an affordable way to feed those in need and for children to learn how to grow their own food to support healthier lifestyles. Implementing multiple community gardens in the Birmingham metro area (similar to Jones Valley Farm) would allow children to

A balanced nutrition for the first 3 years of a child’s life is extremely important to stabilize their mental and physical health in the future. Starvation is a common problem with poor families. It currently affects 49.1 million families in the United States. Undernutrition is the start to many diseases such as measles and malaria. If the children get these diseases, it is very likely that they don’t have health insurance to cover their illnesses and injuries. 15.8 million children have families who are not consistently stable to feed them. Food pantries are crowded and jam packed with people, that they don’t have enough food for all. The majority of canned foods and other donations are donated during Christmas or Thanksgiving when the food pantries need it the most. Nobody realizes that they need food all throughout the year. Food is the main component to fuel the body to grow and move. Poverty doesn’t just hurt a child physically through starvation, moreover mentally through learning

How have we been able to leave earth and break unbelievable feats that sound nearly impossible, and still not be able to do the simplest thing and feed our people with enough nutrition? Like the great saying goes, "We have the means, we have the capacity to eliminate hunger from the face of the Earth in our lifetime. We need only the will." Stated by our former president from the 1960s John F. Kennedy but although there were only three billion people during his time we still have the means to eliminate hunger in the United States with methods that scientist believe could feed the world of today that has above five and a half billion people or more which was stated by “feeding the worlds people”. But we should

Many problems plague the United States as a country that spans a vast swath of land, contains many over exploited natural resources, and houses 320 million people that come from all stretches of the globe, but one of the single biggest problems is hunger. Child hunger in the United States is at the forefront of this issue. The helpless youth of today quite often become the hopeless adults of tomorrow when their basic needs are not met. This country has enough food to provide its citizens with all of their nutritional needs, but just like so many other expansive problems, distribution is the crux of the matter. With children as the focus, we must hone in on a means to bring the food and children together on a consistent basis. Education in this

Resulting in distraction of work during school and life long health issues. Studies have shown that children who do not get the proper nutritious everyday meals they should get, their major organs will be affected, leading to -- or contributing to -- a variety of ailments. Hunger is tied with stomachaches, headaches, depression, anxiety and a decreased ability to focus. I believe hungry kids also struggle socially and behaviorally, making their experiences in school less than enjoyable. Resulting in

A recent study conducted by the Community Childhood Hunger Identification Project (CCHIP) recorded that nearly 8% of American children under the age of 12 years old continuously experience hunger each year. The project also concluded that childhood hunger could be related to a lack of resources. The study also examined the relationship between food insufficiencies found in low income school aged children and their abilities to mentally function. Alarmingly, the study found that hungry and at-risk for hunger children were twice as likely as children receiving adequate meals to be classified as having impaired functioning. The study also reported that Teachers noted increased levels of hyperactivity, absenteeism, and tardiness among the lower

Another program that I believe will eliminate hunger is the St. Pats Hot Meal Program. St. Pats is a church that serves hot meals to the community multiple times a week. When a group of peers and I got there, we spent some time with the kids that showed up while the kitchen was getting ready for the meal. We brought them coloring books, crayons, colored pencils, puzzles, and checkers. I sat across from a little boy who kept almost falling asleep. His grandma explained to me that he does not usually act this way. He is usually a ball of energy who bounces off the walls, but that day he did not have the energy because he was hungry. No matter how hard I tried to distract him with coloring or even a conversation, he could not stop thinking about how hungry he was. It made me really sad to think that someone’s hunger could be so bad that they cannot do anything. Food is a necessity, and being deprived of it can make you feel less human. I hate that in this rich, industrialized nation, there are severe problems. We need to focus on ending hunger in America, and places like St. Pats will help do that. We need to support these programs and expand them to reach all of the hunger insecure.

In 2014, a foundation called Feeding America did a survey on the people they serve and found that in order to stretch their food budgets 79% of them purchase inexpensive and unhealthy food in order to stay fed. This can seriously impact their health, because no matter the age, healthy bodies and minds require nutritious meals. In some cases, food insecurity can even lead to Type 2 diabetes, high blood pressure, heart disease and obesity. These are just a few examples of why food insecurity is so harmful. Fortunately, there are many organizations, clubs, and foundations that are committed to ending hunger in America, and eventually the world. The first step to solving this problem is spreading information, and realizing just how dangerous food insecurity is, and who it affects. After learning these things, you may want to help and there are many ways to do that. I’m sure in the past, you've donated food to the annual canned food drive our school puts on, and that’s just one way you can contribute to solving this problem. There are many organizations that ask for donations and will put your money to great use, for example every dollar you donate to Feeding America will provide 11 meals for a child in need.If you don’t have food or money to donate, you can donate

According to the Hunger in Kentucky website, one out of every five children that live in Kentucky do not have access to enough food. That means that in a classroom of 25 kids, when they go home an average of 5 children could be going home to little or no food waiting on them when they get there. In today’s trying economy there are so many that must make choices as parents between buying groceries and paying for their electric or water. There are food stamps and programs out there but at the end of the months-time these funds are usually depleted and we see children that come in for breakfast in the morning starving. Or the ones that are trying to hide some of their food during lunch or snack time to take home for later. One of the most heartbreaking things I have heard was they were saving their snack for mommy or little sister so that they could have some to eat when they got home. This is a problem we have faced in our school that we need to work on with our children, if even one child is leaving our school and going hungry it is too many. The cafeteria staff at our school should take the food they throw away after breakfast and lunch and give it to our children that need extra food because they are going hungry at home.