From The Network for Public Health Law:
"The Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP), formerly known as
food stamps, is under the microscope lately. People are debating about
what foods and beverages should be eligible for SNAP benefits, and which
businesses should be eligible to accept SNAP benefits. USDA recently
updated the website page
where it describes the foods eligible for SNAP. It’s not entirely
surprising that SNAP is attracting more scrutiny. Use of SNAP has
increased by about 50 percent during the recession to over 45 million Americans in July, 2011.
...Can we end hunger and malnutrition and eliminate obesity and diet-related disease? Are there ideas on which the public health and anti-hunger communities can agree?"
Read more of the blog posting here.
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