Food Stamp Diet Review

What You Should Know

The Food Stamp Diet, which could also be called the Welfare Diet, has become famous mostly through politicians who have tried to subsist on the amount and kinds of foods that millions of Americans on food stamps eat every day. Governors and members of Congress are giving themselves just $21 a week for food, the average that a person on food stamps receives. However, this attempt is focused more on finding inexpensive food than on staying thin.

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The Food Stamp Diet program is all about eating cheaply. However, the kinds of foods that will fill a personís menu if they follow this plan can hardly be considered healthy. In fact, the program should not be considered a diet. In reality it is more of a protest to raise awareness about food stamps. It exists mainly as a political statement that changes need to be made in the food stamp program. As attempts at this diet plainly show, the health of many Americans (26 million in fact) suffers daily because the food they buy on food stamps is of such a poor quality.

Pro’s

This diet is very inexpensive. The goal of the diet is to eat as if you were on food stamps, totaling up around $21 per week or $3 a day.
With the limited number of inexpensive and semi-healthy foods in this diet, grocery shopping can be made fairly simple.
One advantage and probably the main goal of the diet is that this program could help to change the food stamp program so that it would include healthier choices.

Con’s

It is very difficult and almost impossible to maintain a balanced diet with plenty of fresh fruits and vegetables while spending only $3 a day.
Foods that are full of nutrients like vegetables and meat are too expensive for this diet. Most people following this diet will get their protein from peanut butter and processed cheese instead of from lean meats.
Too many carbohydrates will end up being ingested because they are inexpensive. Bread, oats, and cornmeal are three foods that are commonly incorporated into this diet.
Because of the lack of nutrients, people on this diet may actually end up gaining weight.
Exercise is not recommended in this diet plan, which shows that the program is not truly intended to help a person to lose weight.

Conclusion

While this diet is certainly inexpensive and easy on the budget unlike many other diets, it is not the best choice for someone who is truly trying to lose weight. As anyone who tries the Food Stamp Diet will soon discover, it is nigh on impossible to lose weight and eat nutritiously while on food stamps.