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Food Research and Action Center: The program is essential to the basic well-being of millions of Americans, including the nutrition a nd health of children, but needs to be strengthened further. For many low-income people, food stamps are the critical lifeline -- a source of basic income as fundamentally important as Social Security is to seniors. According to a survey of several thousand mothers of 3-year old children in 18 large cities, mental health problems in mothers and behavioral problems in their preschool-aged children were twice as likely in food insecure households as in food secure households. An analysis of nationally representative survey data shows that school-age food insecure girls are less likely to be overweight or at risk of overweight if they participate in the School Breakfast Program, School Lunch Program or Food Stamp Program, or any combination of these programs.
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