The Effects of Poverty on the Nutritional Health of Children
Dorothy Greenstein lives in southern California and does not worry about where her next meal will come from. This has not always been the case for Greenstein. When Greenstein was asked to describe her childhood, the story is much different than her conditions now. Greenstein recalls that “since year eight years young I ate mostly potatoes with cabbage soup and stale dark bread” (Greenstein, 2016). She goes on to state that when she was on her own she was scared and others were afraid to help her. Greenstein states:
I suffered hunger and being scared stiff for six long weeks and some days too. Only when I was a mother 's helper to a Polish Christian child at eleven years old I had some food and had no hunger. While wandering …show more content…
The first reason he reports is the large number of the population suffering from food insecurity. Gunderson reports, “In 2013, 21.4 percent of children in America (15.7 million) lived in food-insecure households, and almost half of these children experienced food insecurity themselves” (Gunderson, 2015, p. 97). Gunderson goes on to describe the second reason as the evidence of a negative impact on the child’s health (Gunderson, 2015).
Sara Rosenbaum and Robert Blum address the relationship between poverty and health in children in the article How Healthy Are Our Children. They describe the impact that society, exposure to toxic substances and food insecurity have on the health of a child. They report that issues in childhood have an impact into adulthood. Rosenbaum and Blum state: “Poor health is disproportionately associated with poverty, as well as with minority status and residence in single parent households, the same households that are most likely to face deep and entrenched poverty” (Rosenbaum & Blum, 2015, p.
Dorothy Greenstein lives in southern California and does not worry about where her next meal will come from. This has not always been the case for Greenstein. When Greenstein was asked to describe her childhood, the story is much different than her conditions now. Greenstein recalls that “since year eight years young I ate mostly potatoes with cabbage soup and stale dark bread” (Greenstein, 2016). She goes on to state that when she was on her own she was scared and others were afraid to help her. Greenstein states:
I suffered hunger and being scared stiff for six long weeks and some days too. Only when I was a mother 's helper to a Polish Christian child at eleven years old I had some food and had no hunger. While wandering …show more content…
The first reason he reports is the large number of the population suffering from food insecurity. Gunderson reports, “In 2013, 21.4 percent of children in America (15.7 million) lived in food-insecure households, and almost half of these children experienced food insecurity themselves” (Gunderson, 2015, p. 97). Gunderson goes on to describe the second reason as the evidence of a negative impact on the child’s health (Gunderson, 2015).
Sara Rosenbaum and Robert Blum address the relationship between poverty and health in children in the article How Healthy Are Our Children. They describe the impact that society, exposure to toxic substances and food insecurity have on the health of a child. They report that issues in childhood have an impact into adulthood. Rosenbaum and Blum state: “Poor health is disproportionately associated with poverty, as well as with minority status and residence in single parent households, the same households that are most likely to face deep and entrenched poverty” (Rosenbaum & Blum, 2015, p.