Federal Food Aid To Puerto Rico High in Salt, Sugar - Sensationalist Headlines

https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2018-06/n2-ffa053118.php https://medicalxpress.com/news/2018-06-federal-food-aid-puerto-rico.html And if you look back towards January, this is the second wave of food products dropped on the island that are purely garbage "foods".

Just like from the mainland?

Well. Do you really care about managing your sodium intake when you're in the middle of a disaster zone?

yeah. why is health not a concern to people without access to functioning infrastructure, hospitals, healthcare, or even food itself? Food and health are so closely tied together that I find this kind of thinking actually a tad absurd.

To be fair, military rations are no different. The amount of sodium in the average meal bag is crazy. That makes sense in a scenario where soldiers are using crazy amounts of energy and sweating a lot, but it may not be so ideal for refugee and generally sedentary populations.

If i depended on federal rations i'd rather them not be pringles and M&Ms

Military rations are not even meant to be a soldier's sustenance. Military rations are mostly used for when you cannot get real food from a field kitchen. This includes when you are on the move and cannot get food because you're in a truck, establishing a new base where the kitchen hasn't been set up yet, long range patrols where you are expected to be out all day and not back for lunch and/or dinner, and special operations in enemy territory. That said there's actually rules regarding how many MRE a soldier is allowed to consume in a specific timeframe because they're not intended to be long term sustenance and treating them as such can have adverse health effects).

To be fair, they're probably focused on reaching as many people as possible which means buying at as low of a cost as they can manage. Which, anywhere, isn't the healthiest foods.

The problem is no they’re not. the people of Peurto Rico have been fucked over by the Trump admin and forgotten

Then you'd hate to see whats in MRE's. A lot of that has to do with the fact that high sodium and high sugar items tend to have a longer shelf life, which is important when things like proper refrigeration (due to the lack of power) is not available. I'm not saying any of this is ideal, but typically food that lasts for a long time is also generally shit for you.

I don’t think that it’s really fair to compare soldiers in an active role to civilians on an island that went through the most botched disaster relief effort the US has ever seen. Im not saying the people of PR need the freshest best food ever, but read the article and understand that this isn’t healthy, sustainable, or reasonable. M&Ms and kitkats are not fucking survival foods.

They're calories. We got candy in MRE's as a moral booster AND because they're full of calories, not to mention their incredibly long shelf life. You're trying to highlight a travesty within a travesty, to which the food their receiving is no where near ideal it is honestly what is best for their current condition. Until their infrastructure is rebuilt you're not going to be able to bring in fresh milk and eggs.

I get that. How long is is this going to continue? At a certain point this goes from being a bandaid to being the apparent fix

Trump isn't sending anything to Puerto Rico that he doesn't eat himself.

and only after he's eaten it, as well

Yes.

I'd like to see a nutrition chart personally before making any call outs. I'd like to get an exact on consumption. Depending on what the populations are doing, it can be seen as worthwhile to have such mealbags, but realistically its a games of ifs and whats.

That would be good. As it is, the post from EurekaAlert, a media wing of the Nutrition Council stated; The analysis revealed that almost 10 percent of the unique items were foods with very low nutritional value such as candies and chips. The team developed meal plans with the foods provided to see how people could eat these foods and still follow the food group recommendations outlined in the Dietary Guidelines for Americans. The analyses revealed that even when excluding candies and chips from the meal plans, people would not be able to follow the Dietary Guidelines for Americans without exceeding the upper limit for daily sodium, added sugars or saturated fats. It is a disaster zone, and there are obviously other issues to be dealt with, but if you're subsisting off of this for almost a year, as PR would have done by now then that is an emerging health issue just waiting to happen in an area with obesity issues already existing especially if healthcare is dismal or poorly accessed.

MRE's are fucking great but they're meant to be emergency rations. If you want real rations though, you're probably better off going with something much more 'simple'.

I mean, if drinking water is also an issue in said disaster zone then having a high sodium intake can become a problem..

Honestly, what's worse, not eating with very little water, or eating super high sodium foods with very little water?

Is there not a middle ground to be found between long lasting and somewhat nutritious?

Why are these the options There are plenty of foods that can be easily kept for long times that are also nutritious.

these shouldn't be the only options they have

Send these. https://files.facepunch.com/forum/upload/219126/b0a07247-770e-4005-b6ba-3892fb1b5a58/C02FDDDE-3E8F-4428-885F-5A6B97002942.jpeg Snake told me that they taste great.

There is actually, the US Humanitarian Daily Ration. The foods are intended for people in war zones, disaster areas, or even in deep poverty. They're even designed with all major religions (also vegetarians) in mind so there's no forbidden foods included, since they're intended for use worldwide. They're likely already in use in PR, they just don't have nearly enough of them and knowing this administration, did not act to correct that problem. http://www.mreinfo.com/images/us/hdr-41.jpg

The hurricane was a ploy to make Puerto Rico fat like us on the mainland.

3-4 days after, by the sound of things.

That blatant lie about the death toll is one of the administration's most reprehensible crimes.