Glencoe Health

Introduction
Project Bread is dedicated to “alleviating, preventing, and ultimately ending hunger in Massachusetts.” The organization hosts the Walk for Hunger, the oldest continual pledge walk in the country. Project Bread provides funding for food for 400 emergency food programs, school breakfast and lunch programs, and 135 communities throughout Massachusetts. Project Bread’s fundraising walk, the Walk for Hunger, attracts more than 50,000 walkers and 2,000 volunteers.

Link to explore:
Project Bread
http://www.projectbread.org

Directions:

• Follow the link above to the Project Bread home page, and click on “Ending Hunger.”
• In the left column, click on “About Hunger,” and then click on “Hunger and Health.”
• In the left column, click on “Ending Hunger,” and then click on the “School Breakfast” link. Read this page and at the bottom, click on the “Better Breakfast Initiative” link.
• After reviewing this information, answer the following questions:

1			What effect does poverty have on hunger?
2			What eating habit has been linked to obesity in all people, regardless of income?
3			How does a healthy breakfast benefit students?
4			What is the purpose of the Better Breakfast Initiative?