Are Food Insecurity’s Health Impacts Underestimated in the U.S. Population?

This research article, Are Food Insecurity’s Health Impacts Underestimated in the U.S. Population? Marginal Food Security Also Predicts Adverse Health Outcomes in Young U.S. Children and Mothers, explores the relationship between mother and children who would be classified as marginally food insecure and their respective health outcomes. It concludes that it is inappropriate to classify those who are marginally food insecure as secure because they more closely reflect those who are food insecure. The authors recommend that instead a separate category of "marginally food insecure" should be established.

Source: Authored by John T. Cook, Maureen Black, Mariana Chilton, Diana Cutts, Stephanie Ettinger de Cuba, Timothy C. Heeren, Ruth Rose-Jacobs, Megan Sandel, Patrick H. Casey, Sharon Coleman, Ingrid Weiss, and Deborah A. Frank. Published by the American Society for Nutrition.