According to the Lisa Bullock’s article from the Missoulian, Fight Childhood Hunger week was successfully wrapped up last April 19, 2015. In 12 communities throughout Montana, 35 service projects raised awareness of childhood hunger. This project was held under one solid principle; No child in Montana or our country should be hungry. Last semester, I took a class of Health Issue of Children and Adolescents. The class helped me to understand current issues of children. We learned about physical and mental health problems of kids and possible solutions of them. Among those issues, the issue of Childhood hunger caught my attention mostly. According to the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA), 15.3 million children lived in food-insecure household in 2014. …show more content…
This means that over 90,000 kids in Montana do not always know their next meal will come. Like Lisa Bullock states in her article, this is an unacceptable fact, and it’s a problem that requires all of our attention. Those kids don’t have enough food to eat three meals a day or enough food at meals to get full. America produces more than enough food, but some kids are experiencing starvation because their families do not have enough money to buy food. Even though, these families can afford least expensive food, this causes other health problems. The mass produced bread, pasta, candies are inexpensive and fresh fruits and vegetables are expensive. Therefore, while kids may be hungry, they are also overweight because their diet have too many carbohydrates and processes food but does not have good protein and nutrient. According to the Diabetes Control, in fact it is living in poverty can double or even triple the likelihood of developing Type 2