Writing and Inquiry Issue Report 2022

Running Head: WRITING AND INQUIRY
Writing and Inquiry
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Writing and Inquiry
Part 1: Overview
Food insecurity has become severe concern in our nation, with several families in
economic adversity having to prioritize other essential needs rather than food. Current issues in
food insecurity, as well as health have emerged to be crucial for socially responsive health
psychologists. Many individuals are resorting to food banks, food stores, charitable meals, as
well as homeless structures that enable them to feed themselves along with their households
because of the growing hardships. The association amid food and social and economic status is
not frequently considered in the debate concerning poverty, as well as consumption. This
concern has been addressed in “Nutritionism and the construction of ‘poor choices’ in families
experiencing food insecurity; from the Journal of Health Psychology, whose authors are Graham,
R., Stolte, O., Hodgetts, D and Chamberlain, K. The authors explain the way it is unproductive to
have the primary emphasis of public health study is to offer “nutritionally a balanced diet for
those individuals in poverty other than looking for a practical answer to the challenge (Graham,
Stolte, Hodgetts & Chamberlain, 2016). Consequently, the authors stress the importance of
offering balanced diet to solve the current problem of food insecurity in financial hardship in the
country. This premise is supported through the enlightening detail offered through carrying out
individual interviews with individuals facing the challenge of food insecurity, monitoring their
daily experiences of the individuals who depend on charitable organizations to offer meals, as
well as contributor observation, in which they see direct, the level of struggle purchasing food is
for somebody in poverty in society (Schrecker & Bambra, 2015).

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Additionally, the authors demonstrate the way the presumption supported by nutritional
experts that individuals have impartial access to food resources, as well as food are particularly
harming with the meaning of food insecurity when there is the absence of gladly accessible,
adequate, nutritional sufficient and safe foods and incapability to get these foods. Graham et al.,
(2016) purpose to motivate the audience that there is a need to put stronger stress on the
contextual origins of food insecurity, as well as for nutrition experts to modify the manner they
tackle this issue in society, to something rather than an arrangement that makes those individuals
with monetary adversity feel inept for their food preferences in a circumstance where they have
no control over the situation (Graham, 2017).
Part 2: Conversation and Context
The authors of the article assert that the present trend if nutritionism disregards the
primary element of food uncertainty in which the issue is not being able to afford health foods.
These authors believe that the majority of the people lack the finances to be able to pay for
healthy choices. The population cannot access healthy foods since they do not have funds and
other resources to access foods that could improve their nutrition. The authors used past studies
to highlight the challenge of food insecurity in many families that cannot access food because of
their inability to raise adequate finances. For instance, the authors explain the problem of food
insecurity among families by using Scrinis (2008) through the lens of nutritionism. It means that
the explicit and implicit reflection of food only concerning mixture along with the prescriptive
relationship amid the nutrients besides health in the creation of a nutritionally balanced diet. This
nutritionist strategy lowers food to macro-nutrients plus calorie units, disregarding broader
socioeconomic elements of meal provision, as well as commensal eating. The authors, through
the study, underscore the fact that there is frequently a fundamental supposition in food-