“…Studies find a higher risk of common mental health disorders (Hadley & Patil, 2006;Patel & Kleinman, 2003), seasonal weight loss, dietary change (Rose, 1999;van Liere, Ategbo, Den Hartog, & Hautvast, 1995) and overall poorer health among members of food insecure or food insufficient households (Casey, Szeto, Robbins, Stuff, Connell, Gossett et al, 2005;Cook, Frank, Berkowitz, Black, Casey, Cutts et al, 2004;Siefert, Heflin, Corcoran, & Williams, 2004). Anthropological studies of food insecurity also document a range of social responses to food insecurity including migration, borrowing from other households, and switching to less desirable foods (Dirks, 1980;Panter-Brick & Eggerman, 1997;Shipton, 1990). Although relatively few studies focus on youth, we can expect many of the underlying relationships between food insecurity and health status that have been observed for adults and children to be present for adolescents.…”