Jake Sticka

ALT Researchers have shown that children receiving SNAP are less likely than low-income non-participants to be in fair or poor health, underweight, or obese, and their families are less likely to make tradeoffs between paying for health care and paying for other basic needs, like food, housing, heating, and electricity. Children who lose some or all of their SNAP benefits are more likely to have poor health and be food insecure compared to children in families that maintain benefits, and families that lose benefits are more likely to forgo medical care or make health care tradeoffs than families who consistently receive SNAP benefits. Another line of research suggests that SNAP may protect against poor cardiometabolic health (characterized by abdominal obesity, lipid imbalances, elevated blood pressure, glucose intolerance and insulin resistance) among youth in low-income families." See: https://www.cbpp.org/research/food-assistance/snap-is-linked-with-improved-health-outcomes-a