1. Introduction
SECONDARY
Academic Editor: Aron WellerFood insecurity, defined as unpredictable access to food that may not meet a person's nutritional needs, is paradoxically associated with higher BMI (kg/mFood insecurity due to lack of regular access to food that meets their nutritional needs [There is a strong relation between food insecurity and elevated body mass index (BMI = kg/mShah and colleagues [While DD assesses a person's style of decision-making that tends to focus on smaller, immediate rewards versus larger, later rewards, there are other approaches to studying how people make decisions that focus on the balance between immediate and long-term needs. This is the basis for prospective thinking or a person's temporal orientation towards the future rather than the present. A widely used measure of temporal orientation is the Consideration of Future Consequences Scale (CFCS) [People with low income and food insecurity often experience stress [The primary goal of this study is to assess whether DD, CFCS, and stress can help understand the relationship between food insecurity and higher BMI in mothers. A secondary goal is replicating the moderating effect of DD on the low-income-high food insecurity relationship that we observed in a previous study in which DD and financial planning moderated the relationship between low income and food insecurity [