{"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:\/\/localhealthcareaz.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) \u2013 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\u2019t enroll in the program. \u201cOur insights were maybe not surprising, but it\u2019s the first time something like this has been documented,\u201d Eric Rimm told Reuters Health. SNAP \u2013 formerly known as food stamps \u2013 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) \u2013 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:\/\/localhealthcareaz.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2028","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/localhealthcareaz.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/localhealthcareaz.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/localhealthcareaz.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/localhealthcareaz.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2028"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/localhealthcareaz.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2028\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/localhealthcareaz.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2028"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/localhealthcareaz.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2028"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/localhealthcareaz.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2028"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}