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Facts About Hunger

More than 12 million children under the age of 18 and more than 3 million children under the age of 5 in the U.S. are unable to consistently access adequate amounts of nutritious food necessary for a healthy life.

The average american throws away 33 pounds of food each month- that's about $40 worth. In a year that means each person throws away almost 400 pounds of food, the weight of an adult male gorilla.

According to a September 2011 report by the U.S. Department of Agriculture, 10.3% of Minnesotans live in households that sometimes struggle to get enough food.

Nearly 50 million people-in the U.S., including almost one child in four- struggled last year to get enough to eat.

Hungry children are more likely to experience headaches, stomach aches, ear infections and colds.

Hungry teens are twice as likely to suffer from depression and five times more likely to commit suicide.

Hungry children have a heightened propensity for having isolating or anti-social behaviors and a greater need for special education.

Hungry Children tend to have lower math scores, are twice as likely to repeat a grade, and three times as likely to be suspended from school.

Hungry pregnant women are more than twice as likely to suffer from excessive stress, depression and anxiety and to have lower self-esteem- conditions that likely contribute to multi-generational hunger.