Status Updates From United States, 1970-1975

Driving one and a half blocks to get food in Detroit because it's too dangerous to walk
Sometimes old people are found dead from hunger at home from fear of venturing out to buy food.

but every time he got the volume down to a certain level it made her two children, two and three years old, wake up and start crying, so he immediately had to turn up the volume again. He could only take it for two nights, after which he had to move.

Only being able to fall asleep with the TV and/or radio on (narcotic).
When he lived with a young black mother outside Detroit, he discovered that it was almost impossible for them to live together. When they went to bed she always turned on the radio. He then lay there waiting for her to fall asleep, after which he slowly tried to turn down the volume because it was impossible to fall asleep

The encounters he had with the constant whining, restlessness and snotty noses of children who cry incessantly because they go to bed hungry seemed almost a relief and infinitely preferable to the empty eyes and dead silence of those children whom hunger made so apathetic that they were no longer able to cry.

Most of the malnourished become overweight because they have to eat a lot of carbohydrates in order to get enough protein.

(Ideally) Few have too much and fewer have too little.