Starving Children in the USA

U.S. hospital emergency rooms are reporting increasing numbers of underweight and malnourished children

showing up in their departments, directly because more and more families are unable to afford to eat.

Hospitals in Baltimore; Little Rock, Arkansas; Minneapolis; Philadelphia; and Boston all

reported this in a new survey, which medics say is the worst incidence of malnutrition they have seen since

they began to monitor hungry children 10 years ago.  LaRouche Pac told you so.


The situation is typical of what once was called an

undeveloped country, is the description of the coordinator of the

survey, Dr. Megan Sandel, a child and public health professor at

the Boston Medical Center (BMC). The details were released this

week by Children's HealthWatch.



Boston Medical Center has had the most dramatic increase in

undernourished children out of all the other cities and

hospitals. Doctors attribute this to New England families being

hit with impossible trade-offs in heating and housing costs.


Before 2007, when the crash set in, 12 percent of youngsters

age three and under, were significantly underweight, in a random

survey of BMC emergency department records; this jumped up to 18

percent in 2010, and is getting worse. The survey also reports

that the percentage of families with children, who say that they

did not have enough food each month, soared from 18 percent in

2007, up to 28 percent in 2010.


BMC saw a 58 percent increase in the number of severely

underweight babies under the age of 1, who were referred by

physicians to BMC's GrowClinic, for intensive intervention

(nutritional, medical and other measures) to boost the babies'

growth. The Clinic had 24 cases in 2005, then 38 in 2010, and now

it's worse.


A typical case is that of a baby treated last year at the

BMC GrowClinic, who at age 1 weighed under 19 pounds, when the

average child is more than 24 pounds. Chronic hunger can lead to

lasting cognitive and other developmental problems.

A dramatic mockery of this reality comes from Mrs. Obama,

who is doing her part, while her husband is allowed to remain in

office, to conduct herself as a British royal tabloid celeb. She

is on the August cover of {Better Homes and Gardens} for a story

titled, "Fresh and Healthy" eating. Shown at her White House

picnic table, serving Washington, D.C. fifth-graders fresh food,

Michelle tells you to take charge of your family's eating.

"Children's habits can be changed so much easier than adults," so

they don't need to be fat. "They don't have control over their

diets -- we do."