A Work In Progress

In March a report was released called "Hunger In Ohio 2010," this report outlined the number of people who are seeking assistance with food year year. The report estimates that 1.4 million Ohioans receive emergency food each year. That number is up almost 20 percent from 2006.
In any given week, according to the study, more than 225,000 Ohioans receive emergency food assistance.
According to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poverty_in_the_United_States.
Poverty in the United States is cyclical in nature with roughly 13 to 17 percent of Americans living below the federal poverty line at any given point in time, and roughly 40 percent falling below the poverty line at some point within a 10-year time span.
The site estimates that most Americans (58.5 percent) will spend at least one year below the poverty line at some point between ages 25 and 75.
According to Mindfully.org, Americans eat 815 billion calories of food each day - that's roughly 200 billion more than needed - enough to feed 80 million people. Americans throw out 200,000 tons of edible food daily. The average American generates 52 tons of garbage by age 75. The average individual daily consumption of water is 159 gallons, while more than half the world's population lives on 25 gallons.
I bring you this information for informational purposes and the fact that if we as Americans, we as individuals would learn to live with what we have been given, we could end the issue of poverty in the country, and we could end it in our community.
There are many organizations in the community that are working to combat this issue everyday. In some cases it has or is becoming an up hill battle.
There is no doubt the economic conditions of today are driving more people to seek help to provide the most basic of needs.
As a part of the Scioto Slimdown, I am taking a look at the food consumption in my life and working to get it get it under control. It will be a hard journey, and I did not say it was going to be easy.
I can not say with certainty that I may not succeed with this effort, but at least I can say I tried and maybe I will have learned something in the process.