Welcome!

To start, I thought I might post a little bit about what we're doing and why we're doing it. 

• Sixteen percent of people in the Southwest Missouri area have to worry about when they will eat next. That means that of Springfield, Missouri’s 165,378 people, approximately 26,460 do not know when they will be able to have another meal.

• Generalizing that, one in five children alone go hungry every day in the United States. That is almost 15 million children that starve. 
• An additional half million live in poverty-stricken homes. 

If you can suspend your disbelief to allow those statistics into your wealth of knowledge, I ask you to stay with me a few moments longer.

• A family sized bag of chips averages between $2.50 and $3.00 and houses several servings. 
• Yogurt (assuming we are looking at the off-brand) costs roughly .50 for one. This allows for five to six servings of yogurt for the same $2.50-$3.00. 
• Which one costs less and gets more servings? The bag of chips. Most healthy foods are this way, costing more than unhealthy ones. That’s not to say that there aren’t healthy foods available for cheap: bananas can usually be found for only a couple of dollars, oranges are generally under a dollar as well per orange, but the resources do not go much beyond those. 

Not Big But Broke believes: 

• that every person has the inherent right to eat healthy, nutritious food that will benefit and not harm them. 
• obesity should be in DSM as a disease much like any other eating disorder
• That the idea of children not having access to the food they need may be leading to unhealthy eating rather than them choosing. 
• that the subsidizing of farmers is not helping but hurting America’s healthy food source. Therefore, grants and subsidies should be given more to health food producers and possibly distributors in order to bring the healthy food prices down.

Not Big But Broke is focusing on children and young adults who are overweight due to a lack of nourishing foods available. 

Currently Not Big But Broke is currently:

• writing a law that provides subsidies and grants to health-food companies (rather than to farmers) to get healthy foods into more homes. 
• working to provide education on the purchasing of foods and what constitutes 'healthy' and how to make those purchases that are just as good for your pocket book. 
• researching the possibility of working with insurance companies to give rebates to consumers for the purchase of healthy foods. 
• trying to get obesity as a disorder in the DSM 5 (diagnostic and statistical manual of mental disorders).