Food Insecurity Essay

Food insecurity is the inability to consume sufficient amount of quality and quantity of food as accepted by the society (McIntyre et.al, 2014). People who receive their primary source of income from employment are unable to access food due to financial constraints resulting in poor health outcomes and about 4% of people who are employed reported food insecurity during the period of 2007-2008 (McIntyre et.al, 2014). According to a Canadian Community Survey (CCHS), 59.7% of the household who received social assistance were identified to live with food insecurity (McIntyre et al, 2014). A household with less education and less income are more prone to food insecurity and are vulnerable to severe mental and physical health combined with unhealthy eating and excessive stress. (McIntyre et al, 2014) The households that are identified as food insecure were mostly led by young females and lone parents with more children below the age of 12 (McIntyre et al, 2014).

Earners of food insecure houses reported high stress due to holding multiple jobs to

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