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The Food Stamp Diet: Increasingly Popular, but How Healthy?

As this holiday weekend wrapped up, The New York Times posted an update on the rising number of Americans dependent on food stamps. According to the Times, one in eight Americans are currently on food stamps, and the majority of them are children, with one in four youngsters receiving food assistance through the Supplemental Nutritional Assistance Program (SNAP). If you calculate the number of children who will have been on at some point before they reach the age of 20, it moves up to (approximately) half. But, with both a marked rise in the number of Americans using food stamps and increased ...

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