Household Food Insufficiency Is Associated with Poorer Health

The purposes of this study were to estimate the prevalence of household food insufficiency in Canada, to identify sociodemographic characteristics of households most likely to report food insufficiency and to examine the relationship between food insufficiency and physical, mental and social health. These objectives were achieved through an analysis of data from the 1996/1997 National Population Health Survey. An estimated 4% of Canadians, 1.1...