Food secure 1

Occasionally you may hear this relatively new term, "food insecurity." Like any term, it can be used loosely or inaccurately. One in nine American households is said to be "food insecure." Maybe you wondered if that means that one in nine persons is starving. It doesn't.

There's a specific meaning as defined by the U.S. Dept. of Agriculture (USDA). A household is food-secure if everyone in it has adequate food choices for a healthy, active life at all times during a given year. 

If their eating patterns are sometimes disrupted by having to go to community food pantries or government programs or by eating a less-varied diet, then they are called food-insecure.

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