{"id":2028,"date":"2013-11-25T17:50:58","date_gmt":"2013-11-25T17:50:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/medclinicsllc.com\/blog\/2013\/11\/25\/food-stamps-may-not-improve-food-security-diet-quality\/"},"modified":"2013-11-25T17:50:58","modified_gmt":"2013-11-25T17:50:58","slug":"food-stamps-may-not-improve-food-security-diet-quality","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stuff2host.com\/index.php\/2013\/11\/25\/food-stamps-may-not-improve-food-security-diet-quality\/","title":{"rendered":"Food stamps may not improve food security, diet quality"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>By Andrew M. Seaman NEW YORK (Reuters Health) &#8211; A program that provides food and nutrition assistance to millions of low-income Americans may not be effective at current funding levels, suggests a new study. Researchers found people who received assistance through the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) fared no better than people in similar conditions who were not eligible or didn&#8217;t enroll in the program. &#8220;Our insights were maybe not surprising, but it&#8217;s the first time something like this has been documented,&#8221; Eric Rimm told Reuters Health. SNAP &#8211; formerly known as food stamps &#8211; is the largest U.S. food assistance program and reached approximately 45 million people in 2011, Rimm and his colleagues write in the Journal of Nutrition Education and Behavior.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Andrew M. Seaman NEW YORK (Reuters Health) &#8211; A program that provides food and nutrition assistance to millions of low-income Americans may not be effective at current funding levels, suggests a new study. Researchers found people who received assistance through the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) fared no better than people in similar conditions [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[23,33,67,80,81,82,85],"class_list":["post-2028","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-weight-management","tag-diet","tag-hcg","tag-phentermine","tag-weight","tag-weight-clinic","tag-weight-loss","tag-weight-managenemt"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stuff2host.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2028","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stuff2host.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stuff2host.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stuff2host.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stuff2host.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2028"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stuff2host.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2028\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stuff2host.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2028"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stuff2host.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2028"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stuff2host.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2028"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}