{"id":267860,"date":"2025-06-01T23:11:07","date_gmt":"2025-06-01T23:11:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/peraltafinancing.com\/agriculture\/food-insecurity-food-banks-and-type-2-diabetes\/"},"modified":"2025-06-01T23:11:07","modified_gmt":"2025-06-01T23:11:07","slug":"food-insecurity-food-banks-and-type-2-diabetes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fivemor.com\/?p=267860","title":{"rendered":"Food Insecurity, Food Banks and Type 2 Diabetes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Food Banks Contribution to Type 2 Diabetes - Cooking Up a Story\" class=\"wp-image-44487\" src=\"https:\/\/cookingupastory.com\/storage\/2016\/06\/Food-Banks-Contribution-to-Type-2-Diabetes-8162.jpg\"\/><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cookingupastory.com\/storage\/2016\/06\/Food-Banks-Contribution-to-Type-2-Diabetes-8162.jpg\" alt=\"Food Banks Contribution to Type 2 Diabetes - Cooking Up a Story\" class=\"wp-image-44487\"\/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Food Banks, Food Insecurity and Type 2 Diabetes<\/h2>\n<p>Being poor in America today is no walk in the park. Food insecurity, the ability of a person (or family) to access the requisite amount of food (not junk food) on a daily basis, continues to be a crisis for many Americans.<\/p>\n<p>According to today\u2019s NYT article: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2016\/06\/21\/health\/diabetes-food-banks.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Food Banks Take On a Contributor to Diabetes: Themselves:<\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cIn 2014, 17.4 million households were \u201cfood insecure,\u201d or lacking enough to feed the whole family, according to the Department of Agriculture. Many of them rely on food banks at least part time to feed their families.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Cooking Up a Story published an interview in February of 2011 with then CEO of Oregon Food Bank, Rachel Bristol about conditions on the ground with Oregon families. Bristol painted a grim picture. Over 1 million people were receiving emergency food boxes, a diet intended only for short-term consumption. Instead, because of the massive need still exacerbated by the 2009 recession, recipients were forced to live on these emergency rations for a year or longer. In a follow-up phone interview a year later, despite improvements in the general economy, the numbers of people receiving emergency food boxes were still very high. The link to the first video interview also contains information about that conversation with Ms. Bristol.<\/p>\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Cooking Up a Story Videos<\/h2>\n<p>Here\u2019s a link to both videos that resulted from that interview:<\/p>\n<p>The recent NYT article above confirms the intransigence of food insecurity in our country. It also unfortunately highlights the same mismatch between those in need receiving nutritious food versus what they often receive instead: emergency rations intended for immediate survival.<\/p>\n<p>We also did a story on a family that was going through a period of food insecurity which elicited some strong reactions from our YouTube audience. Some felt that this family must be freeloaders because they owned a \u201ccomputer\u201d and had internet access, how could they truly be so poor? All I can say to those who feel this way, spend a week living in their shoes and see how much fun it is to be dependent on food pantries to feed your family. A computer and access to the internet, in today\u2019s world, are the equivalent of having a telephone in the 2oth century. Those are not luxury items.<\/p>\n<p>Watch the video, it\u2019s a good story about how one family copes with their own food insecurity. If you are like us, you may see a little of yourself in their story:<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Food Banks, Food Insecurity and Type 2 Diabetes Being poor in America today is no walk in the park. Food insecurity, the ability of a person (or family) to access the requisite amount of food (not junk food) on a daily basis, continues to be a crisis for many Americans. According to today\u2019s NYT article: [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":267861,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12026],"tags":[11297,43009,2074,95656,37237,3022],"dealstore":[],"offerexpiration":[],"class_list":["post-267860","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-agriculture","tag-banks","tag-diabetes","tag-food","tag-food-bank","tag-insecurity","tag-type"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Food Insecurity, Food Banks and Type 2 Diabetes - Som2ny Network<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/fivemor.com\/?p=267860\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Food Insecurity, Food Banks and Type 2 Diabetes - Som2ny Network\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Food Banks, Food Insecurity and Type 2 Diabetes Being poor in America today is no walk in the park. 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