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We know that Food Security and Healthy Eating are really complex policy issues and you cannot just look at the issue from one dimension. And we search for a way to communicate this better and understand it better but we found it from the World Health Organization to be helpful for us and we have modified that. And so it has allowed us to accurately examine the issue. Food resource and access and consumption, the ability to have the resources to purpose the food. And this can come from your income oracle fresh or wic and other programs. Access to nutritionally appropriate food convenient to you and either through the food retaylor the food meal programs. And then, the Food Consumption really refers to the ability to prepare healthy meals and then the know ....
Consumption, the ability to have the resources to purpose the food. And this can come from your income oracle fresh or wic and other programs. Access to nutritionally appropriate food convenient to you and either through the food retaylor the food meal programs. And then, the Food Consumption really refers to the ability to prepare healthy meals and then the knowledge basic of the nutrition and food safety and cooking and so this is where, the whole area around cooking nutritional education and comes into play as well as. Through the rest of the presentation and through the report we have used this framework to present the data as well as present our challenges in each area and our recommendations and our what is working. And today, i am going to go through the challenges we dont have time and that is why you have the report. I want to note for the record that we have been joined by scott weiner. And the second challenge around ....
Have the report. I want to note for the record that we have been joined by scott weiner. And the second challenge around the Food Resources is the fact that again, cal fresh which is the Food Stamp Program is highly effective but it is under enrolled as a state of cal, we actually ranked last in the country, in terms of participation in this program. The local food stamps has been growing over the past years. And the growth is pretty phenomenal. Now as you all probably heard in the media, there was a cut to the food stamp benefit levels at the end of october. And that was as a result of the stimulus funding that went away. And now, the average dollar value of for the food stamps for the meals is about a dollar 40 and so it went down from a dollar 60 to a dollar 40 and even though that is small, you will see late kneer it has a major impact on the peoples budgets and then t ....
San francisco and the food banks and the tender loin, development and the ucsf center for populations at San Francisco general hospital. As we come together, we really work to figure out how to collaborate and how to improve this situation we know that there are programs that we can get data for but we wanted to see the system as a whole and to be able to have the data to analyze that and we wanted to make this Information Available to groups and other department so that we will be able to join in and make sure that all are eating healthy. And i am going to go into the framework that we have utilized for this analysis and supervisor mar touched on it in his opening comments. We know that Food Security and Healthy Eating are really complex policy issues and you ....