Apart from making people look great, natural health foods actually help them feel good about themselves and achieve a state of physical well-being through regular consumption of the foods. Intake of natural health foods is one the safest ways to lose weight and keep the blood sugar at an optimum level allowing one to have total control over his or her body. Natural health foods also help to minimize the risk of diabetes and enhance the effectiveness of the immune system much required to support a healthy body. Although there are some individuals who look good naturally, it is often very difficult to have total fitness when the eating habit is not correct.
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Food Stamps and Soda: Of Soup, Nuts, Carrots, and Stick
I have a sneaking suspicion that the “keep the government out of our business!” crowd will object to the plan by NYC’s mayor, Michael Bloomberg, to preclude the use of food stamp assistance- known as SNAP- to purchase soda. But here’s the irony in that: this is the government minding its own business, literally, more than anyone else’s.
First, the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program is, of course, a government program- overseen centrally by the USDA, with administration farmed out to state and municipal authorities. If the government is giving out the money, the notion that it has a say in what it can be used to buy may not be entirely outrageous. I trust we can all agree that there would be cause for protest if money or vouchers given to help sustain a ‘hungry’ household were spent on, say, cocaine, or for that matter tobacco- right? Soda is not cocaine, or tobacco- but it is an at least nominally addictive substance, corrosive if not abruptly toxic to health, and devoid of any nutritional value food assistance is intended to help obtain. QED
But second, and at least as important- the ranks of SNAP participants- much enlarged courtesy of our global economic woes- are substantially the same ranks enrolled in Medicaid, government health insurance for the financially challenged. So here’s the thing for all to ponder: should government food subsidies be useable for the very kinds of foods that are most strongly associated with bad health outcomes, for which additional government expenditures will be required? No private business would function so dysfunctionally, and this seems to bespeak the very kind of government inefficiency to which the shrink-the-government contingent objects.
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U.S. Embassy Announces Groundbreaking Effort to Provide Emergency Food Assistance to Earthquake Victims in Haiti
Two New Grants Utilize Cash and Food Vouchers to Complement In-Kind Food Aid
PORT-AU-PRINCE -The U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) announced today that it will award two separate, high-impact grants in Haiti to help earthquake-affected families meet their food needs from local markets with cash or vouchers. The innovative grants, the first two made in Haiti under USAID’s new Emergency Food Security Program, were awarded to the and .
The Emergency Food Security Program is a new initiative managed by USAID’s Office of Food for Peace.