Report: 09 comprised American families suffer from food stress

American comprised family "not enough to eat" AP U.S. Department of Agriculture Economic Research Service Center released a report 15th, nearly 15% of American families experienced different levels of food stress 2009 years.　　The report says the number of American families applying for assistance from 15 food and nutrition programs in the Ministry of Agriculture has increased from 3.9 million in 2007 to 5.6 million in 2009.　　In the 2009, more than 50 million Americans, including at least 17 million children, lived in families that were not sure enough to get adequate food.　　American households, who experienced varying levels of food stress in 2009 years, accounted for 14.7% of the total, compared with 14.6% in 2008 and 11.1% in 2007. According to the Economic Research Services Center, since the agency began to count similar data in 1995, the number of American families experiencing food stress for 2009 years has been the largest. The BBC estimates that the USDA's "starving" family statistics are surprising to a developed country facing obesity in the US.