Going Hungry is not Great for your Health
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- Опубликовано: 27 июл 2024
- About 50 million people in the United States don't have access to enough food to support a healthy lifestyle. The technical term for this is food insecurity, and over 40% of people in the United States will experience it during their adult lives. This pervasive problem has a lot of associated health effects, too.
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We had to make a quick fix and reupload. Sorry if you got notified twice, and thanks for watching! -stan
Healthcare Triage I thought you were talking to me 😂.
@Stan
1) What was the mistake, if you don't mind me asking? Thanks for going through the effort of correcting yourselves. It adds to your credibility.
2) How does a person become a surgeon admiral? Is that your day job?
Stan!
Being hungry can seriously affect your mental health. My dad and I had a period (about a month roughly) where we had no food in the house, and the worrying about making sure my dad and I both had meals got me to the point where I was severely depressed and trying not to self-harm or overdose.
(For my fellow Americans) Remember that the natural resources defense council estimated that nearly 40% of the food produced in the United States is never eaten.
Much of this is due to consumer behavior, but that isn't the reason people are skipping meals and having trouble making ends meet. Affordable groceries are not the same as leftovers that are tossed out at your local Friday's.
@@grantcivyt I don't think the point was ever that the two are the same.
@@TJStellmach This comment about food waste was made on a video about hunger. The clear implication is the wasted food could be going to the hungry instead.
Depression = food insecurity = depression. It’s co-morbidity.
What does co-morbidity mean?
@@elsaeinstein3269 Co-morbidity means the presence of two disease (or conditions) in a patient. It also means they have an effect on each other; possibly making the situation worse. In this case I meant depression can cause or worsen the food insecurity and food insecurity can cause or worsen depression.
I doubt that depression is "equal to" or even leads to food insecurity. I think there's a lack of community in many places that creates some lonely people with little support. A lack of family and friendships very likely leaves a person vulnerable to both depression and food insecurity. Not to mention many of the other afflictions mentioned in this video.
@@grantcivyt you’re right ‘=‘ was a poor symbol for the relationships involved that are much more complex. I suffered from severe depression for many years so I have some firsthand experience with this problem.
It’s astounding how our country produces way more food than is necessary to feed all our citizens and yet people go hungry. Surely we can work something out.
My mother goes to a church that occasionally gives out food. My mother comes home with food even though we aren't food insecure at all. It frustrates me that she brings the food, but it's likely that it would go to waste otherwise. I suspect there is a regulatory or reputational problem that's keeping grocery stores and other food retailers/suppliers from creating a commercial branch that sells food that would otherwise be donated or discarded. It's difficult and impractical for a poor person to daily sort out which church is giving out food that day and then make his way there (hopefully before it runs out). But everyone is a reasonable walk away from a McDonald's that reliably has food. We need a McDonald's for discount "ugly" foods.
Of course, the company that tries to create such a store is likely to come under pressure for making a profit on the backs of the poor and for paying low wages. So food continues to be wasted and people continue to go hungry.
Food banks target households on the margins of food insecurity many times because they don't qualify for government assistance and fewer families that do qualify for assistance actually get it. I can say that from personal experience serving in food banks (Pomona) that all kinds of people needed assistance but couldn't get it elsewhere.
Thanks for talking about this subject.
There are too many "food deserts", areas where it's difficult to buy nutritious food. Think of an urban neighborhood where the only places that sell food are small mom&pop stores, and most of the food they sell is processed and packaged; you're not likely to find fresh produce. The nearest large supermarket is a bus or taxi ride away, and who wants to try to bring perishable fresh food home on the bus? So it's easy to just go to a fast-food place and buy some junk made out of sugar and fat, because at least if you eat it you won't feel hungry.
I have a friend who went to a well-respected culinary school. One of the student projects she got involved in was offering cooking classes so that people who had limited food budgets could learn how to make nutritious meals out of inexpensive and easily available ingredients. I know from my own personal experiences that I feel less insecure about food because I know how to make a tasty meal out of whatever I've got on hand. (Knowledge is power!)
That's partially because the consumers around then do not support progressive food stores that sell healthy options.
@@coleweede1953 Not everybody is going to have a Whole Foods nearby. Some municipalities provide ways for people in food deserts to access farmer's markets and things like that. I've heard of a "FoodMobile", like a bookmobile but they sell fresh nutritious foods, and also provide information for people who don't know how to cook those fresh beets. Most large cities really need FoodMobiles.
Simple things matter, like knowing how to prepare the most basic of meals: rice (or noodles) and a vegetable. Or knowing that there is nothing wrong with frozen or canned vegetables, it is not unusual for the canned version to be healthier and/or taste better. For instance: I recently learned that canned tomatoes are picked while they are ripewhile fresh tomatoes are picked unripe so they are easier to transport. So canned tomatoes taste better than fresh tomatoes.
@@bramvanduijn8086 Except that calcium salts are added to canned tomatoes to keep them firm during the packaging process. And these calcium salts can keep the tomatoes from becoming soft enough to make a really nice-textured sauce.
There’s usually food donation spots at hospitals, so if you ever have canned goods that you’re not going to use, consider looking for donation spots.
I wonder how many people in the US incorrectly perceive that those who are going hungry are doing so due to some personal fault or failure.
I’m guessing that a lot of people, unfortunately 😔☹️
I hate that people in this country - especially children - ever go to bed hungry :(
well posh white ppl call that intermittent fasting :)
Great upload, as always!
I understand a little bit about this situation. I experienced this when I first lived on my own as an adult. I think the help that is offered is sometimes refused because people are too proud to accept help, or they don't even know there IS help..
All the associated risk factors are either a co-morbidity (being food insecure causes depression) or associated with economic status (being black, living in higher cost of living areas, having a low wage or trying to eek out a living on disability, missing fathers, poor education, etc. are all factors that, generally speaking, mean the person has less money to work with, and since money is the primary exchange mediuum used for the distrbution of food worldwide, sad as that is to say, of course, having less money will lead to food insecurity). Add to this the HIGH costs of fresh food, and you have, essentially, a society in which a health diet is a luxury of the rich. If you're feeding a family, are you going to choose a $4 pint of tomatos or use that $4 to buy two 3-lbs Great Value boxes of elbow macaroni? Right, you'll choose something that will feed the family several meals, not a luxury fresh produce item your kids would eat as a very SMALL snack. High caloric-density foods (which are generally a tiny, tiny fraction of the cost of fresh fruits and veggies, if you can even find fresh foods that are edible and not moldy) are why so very many poor people who experience food insecurity are, paradoxically, over-weight. Obesity isn't about over-eating. It's about poor diet, which is often economically motivated. This why distributing food based on a monetary system is such an incredibly bad idea, but I don't expect people to realize that for at least another several decades... -.-
Our household has lived this way for years. The end of the month comes and you decide to use the milk for cereal or coffee. Coffee, of course. We decided to buy powdered milk. We don't have a lot of money but like good coffee, so we buy from a roaster. When people come to our house and take a cup of coffee we cringe.
You prioritize your purchases. It was infuriating when my mother, whom we were taking care of would offer our food to other people.
Some people don't get enough to prioritize they just don't have enough no matter how frugal they are. I live on disability if not for eating at a day program and getting food from a food bank I would be in this position.
@@gentlebutch I'm sorry that my comment isn't really what going without food is about. It's more about remembering the empty cupboard. My kids and were raised on food bank food. I made too much for Food Stamps. We've even done some dumpster diving where you can get bags of unopened packages of snacks that are expired. I do know where you are coming from. I am disabled as well. Both of my children, now adults, have disabilities that prevent them from working. My oldest is my caretaker.
I am sorry that now you are living from the groceries from a food bank. I hope that you are getting tasty and nutritious meals.
@@nab-rk4ob I see where you're coming from growing up I went weeks without food. I live in an impoverished area. I am thanks to a club for people with psych social issues and food bank and the $16 in snap that I get. I make it do me.
Drug use can be really damaging this way. Hopefully you guys can manage to get off your caffeine dependence and have milk for more nutritious purposes.
We need to get rid of the food wastage in super markets that can be used to either feed low wage staff members or food insecure people in general. We also need to make an effort to make healthier food more affordable. It is a problem for many demographics not getting the nutrition they need to properly recover from workplace injury and stressors. Frozen vegetables, canned beans, and dried beans, grains, and potatoes. These must always be in ample supply all over the US and proper education to low income people on how to prepare meals is needed too. The people of the World cannot just subsist on junk food alone. They will always be hungry if they eat low-no fibre foods devoid of micronutrients.
great channel and videos! please make a video on fasting :D thanks for your work!
I hope this convinces most people to support state policies to help alleviate these problems. The market won't solve it by itself.
So basically things that make you have less money make you have less food. And signs that you already have money make it more likely that you have food.
I think the title could be more specific - I thought this was about intermittent fasting and other voluntary things.
Alternative titles could be: "More people in the US are going hungry than you would think" - or something along those lines
Could you guys supply direct links to the relevant sources in the description or a pinned comment?
I struggle with food insecurity
Please do videos about fasting. Truths, lies, benefits and consequences of fasting. Religious fasting vs dieting fasting and intermittent fasting.
There should be nutritional education for everyone but especially for impoverished people. For example, Buying a pound of black beans is cheaper, nutritionally superior, and will last longer than a sugar laden box of cereal. For the price of a McDonald’s meal ( including fries and coke) you can buy a couple of pounds of ground beef.
i live with my biological parents and ive been insecure with food all my life
tfw you're watching this video while food insecure
Anecdotal data: for me depression leads to food insecurity
Written by Dr. Sherlock, first name no shit.
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But really, who gives a shit if people in the states are starving? If people really wanted to solve it they could, so it's obvious they don't. Or at least the people who run things don't. And why would they? Having huge amounts of money is more important than anything else. Anything at all.
Starving Kills!
Make to much to get food stamps but i have buy foods for diabetic I'm so upset everything has tripled in cost I pay all house hold Bill's 600 for house insurance 1600 isn't enough for car insurance gas I dont have much left I transport my mentally I'll daughter extra gas I need help where can i go to get help asap
This is the 21st century...
A "first world" nation...
smh
This channel rightly challenges the viewer to fact check their sources of information. However, doesn’t disclose any of their own sources despite many requests from other viewers in the past. Does this raise any concerns with anyone else?
Hi H Strat! We list our source information at the bottom of the screen as they are discussed, are there any specific links you'd like? Happy to provide them!
Thank you for such a prompt reply!
I’m a healthcare professional in England, and often provide teaching for other healthcare professionals about understanding the effectiveness of their treatments, which is why I’m so interested in the following.....
The video updoaled on 24/9/19 titled ‘Many Common Treatments Aren’t Helpful’ stated (at 5 minutes and 18 seconds) that a study found 800 treatments in England should not be delivered. However no reference was provided, and I searched all kinds of variations to find the source of that information with no luck ...... could you kindly help me out on this?
Thanks for your help in advance!
@@jessicastrat9376 Absolutely :)
Here's the link for that study, sorry it was a difficult one to search out! www.bmj.com/content/343/bmj.d4519.long
Isnt it great that beacuse rich people want more money they decide that not giving people food is good actually?
thought this was going to be a vid about fasting duh
How ridiculous that we have a food surplus, yet there are still people starving.
@@owlfrog There are certainly starving people in the US. Food insecurity is a blanket term for anyone who is not guaranteed food. "Household food insecurity is the inadequate or insecure access to food due to financial constraints." Whether it be extreme or minor. This is includes anyone from skipping a meal or two due to financial difficulty, or going days on end without food for sheer lack of resources.
@@owlfrog I guess homeless people are not considered people in your opinion.
Food insecurity forces people to perform intermittent fasting, which is good practice.
But choosing to go a day without food is different to the chronic stress of wondering when you will next have food, or when your kids will have food. Plus the evidence for the health benefits of intermittent fasting isn't as clear cut as advocates claim.
@@ElizabethJones-pv3sj yeah, it would be nice to see those claims for intermittent fasting truly tested.
But as with everything in nutrition and dieting, we are stuck with confusion
So this isn't a video about fasting. 😂
Involuntary fasting. Turns out to be a bad thing.
I suppose by the law of supply-and-demand, if the entire nation tried intermittent fasting to improve our terrible obesity-related health problems, we could reduce the cost of food and eliminate food insecurity for the VA poor.
That might be a better cause for those who like to express their politics through their diet
This system is fine? Who needs food anyway?
Sardines are cheap and super healthy but you want to give my crappy paycheck to people who spend it on cheetos and soda
vore the rich
Old people used to say Get your breakfast as a king Lunch as a prince Dinner as a poor
Andrew Yang will completely fix this issue. UBI $1000 a month to everyone will completely fix food insecurity
kokichi ouma If everyone has 1000$ no one does. What makes currency valuable is its value (someone willing to pay or work for something). Imo giving people 1000$ a month will cause hella inflation and make all money worth less. Idk I’m not an expert though
@@jaredstearns2223 if everyone had 1000$. Everybody will have some money and purchasing power regardless of the effects of inflation. Is money valuable because there are people homeless and hungry? No. There is a couple economists who specifically advocate for UBI such as Greg Mankiw. Please hear Andrew Yang for yourself and he probably has already answered your questions and concerns. The most important thing of the freedom dividend I think. Is to show in a concrete way that every human being is valuable inherently. Our country is one big family. Heck, the money is better than therapy. Plus, 1000$ a month, you'd still need to work to cover expenses beyond basic survival. It won't discourage work except maybe for childrearing. I feel it will if anything raise productivity.
@@jaredstearns2223 No.
+1,000 sins
I understand the child questions. But the adults cutting the size of meals because there wasn't enough money... I have a problem with. The questions are not narrow. It's a general question that could cover so much. I would bet a large chunk would be college students. You constantly pick apart studies/surveys with self reporting answers. Also you drag nutrition studies because of the amount of time needed and how people are bad at remembering. I have no doubt food insecurity is real but those questions don't do anything to narrow down the problem. If you spent $500 on a pair of shoes so you cut your meals in half is more a insecurity about how you look than it being an insecurity of food access. If it's observational instead of filling out a form with two questions how about there be some actual follow up with those who answered insecure. This is why the government wastes money. Do a survey throw money at it accomplish nothing because there was no follow up to address the problems appropriately.
I agree.
This is especially true about poor people, who are overweight. Clearly the money isn't being spent wisely.
Also, we can see from the discussions, that poor people might have a tendency to fudge the facts, such as the user above, who wrote that he/she sometimes doesn't have food for weeks. That seems like harsh exaggeration.
The questions should focus on how much money they have, and what sources of free food are available, and how far way cheap frozen food is.
In defense of poor people: not having close access to frozen food can cause serious problems.
Why does being a college student make the status of food insecurity less relevant?
@@unappropadope first where in my comment do I say that "college students" make food insecurity less relevant?
@@mrdonetx after you said you had a problem with "the adults cutting the size of meals because there wasn't enough money" you said to suspect a large chunk would be college students. do you mean this in terms of needing more information before forming/implementing policy to address the problem? this study sounds very preliminary on the whole gauging the problem to me.
I also don't know how many people are going hungry for expensive shoes, but it sounds like a problematic assumption when trying to address hunger and poverty. I would suspect those cases are far more the minority than not but am also far from an expert on the topic.
@@unappropadope it is a problem when the questions ask very general questions. I knew many a college student who cut or missed meals. Whether it be from studying for exams, spending to much money on alcohol the weekend before, etc. I pretty sure that isn't considered food insecurity. The question however only asks if you have missed or cut meals. They would be honest in answering in the affirmative. Also it isn't a "study", studies are scientific this is a question that is asked on the census. That is a survey. A horrible one to say the least. It fails to accurately establish actual numbers of food insecurity. Which in turn will do nothing to tell the government where tax dollars would be spent with the most effectiveness. There is only a set amount that can be budgeted so not having accurate data or even semi-accurate will be wasteful. Either said funding will be spread over such a large populous that it drastically limits funds available to those that need it or it's put into places that it isn't needed. Either way it is going to waste enormous amounts of tax dollars that could be kept by the tax payer or put into the populous with the most need. So again I will say that is why I hate the government because they spend my tax dollars in ways that my 5yr old nephew can understand is not efficient nor helpful.
I choose to be food insecure to lose weight, have lost 10 lbs in 1 month :)
Now do it as a 12 year old child
I chose to be food insecure to stay in school. Now, 10 years later, I have metabolic issues like a former anorexic. We call this a "financially induced eating disorder".
Fasting is good for you poor people
Just buy a banana at store and you healthy. Lazy people!