Food Stamps - Gateway to Female Obesity

(Columbus, Ohio) The Ohio State University researchers have found that women who use food stamps tend to weigh more than those who don't.

Ohio State University researcher Jay Zagorsky recently studied the issue using data from the university's National Longitudinal Survey of Youth, which has surveyed about 10,000 people periodically since 1979.

Zagorsky looked at 4,000 of those people who had received benefits through the U.S. Food Stamp Program at some point over the past 14 years.

His research showed that women who used food stamps had a higher body-mass index than those who didn't by 1.24 points on average. [...]

That means that a woman who is 5 foot 4 and uses food stamps typically is about 5.8 pounds heavier than a woman who doesn't.

Zagorsky draws the conclusion that the current method of distributing food stamps promotes binge-eating.

I'll go out on a limb and suggest that it's food that leads to obesity, not the stamps.