#029: Too Poor To Eat And Losing Your Mind From Hunger (ft. Tati Cosper)

Tati Cosper contacted us to raise awareness about the connections between hunger, poverty and mental health in America - so we did an episode on it with her! Why are people malnourished in the richest country on Earth? How is it that people can work a full time job or multiple jobs, and not be able to feed their children? We explore stats such as "school-aged children who face severe hunger are 56.2% more likely to have PTSD and 53.1% more likely to have severe depression," and question how it is that 40% of food gets thrown in the trash in America. Is capitalism the best economic system for the production and distribution of food for children and working families?

Contact Tati at https://www.linkedin.com/in/tatiana-cosper-44138914a/ and support a project she's involved in called the Urban Indigenous Collective here: https://urbanindigenouscollective.org/donate

Resources:

-Wasted: How America Is Losing Up to 40 Percent of Its Food from Farm to Fork to Landfill
https://www.nrdc.org/resources/wasted-how-america-losing-40-percent-its-food-farm-fork-landfill

Why are people malnourished in the richest country on Earth?
https://www.nationalgeographic.com/foodfeatures/hunger/

3 Devastating Effects of Hunger on the Body
https://www.feedingamerica.org/hunger-blog/3-ways-hunger-affects-your-body

To be thin but not healthy - The body-image dilemma may affect health among female university students in China
https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0205282

Weight status and body image perceptions in adolescents: current perspectives
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4554432/

Food Security Status of U.S. Households with Children in 2019
https://www.ers.usda.gov/topics/food-nutrition-assistance/food-security-in-the-us/key-statistics-graphics.aspx#children

Food Insecurity and Bulimia Nervosa in the United States https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6555671/

As Thanksgiving Approaches, Fewer Than Half of Households With Kids Very Confident About Affording Needed Food
https://www.cbpp.org/blog/as-thanksgiving-approaches-fewer-than-half-of-households-with-kids-very-confident-about

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