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How Hunger Relates To: Obesity & Public Health

The Hunger-Obesity Paradox

It is hard for many to believe that there is a hunger problem in America when the same population that is hungry is also often excessively overweight.  This paradox forces us to look at hunger in a different way: not starving, but food insecure.  This means that nearly 50 million people in America have at some point been unsure where their next meal is coming from, don’t have enough money to buy the basics and pay rent and utilities, or have trouble…