By Andrew M. Seaman NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – A program that provides food and nutrition assistance to millions of low-income Americans may not be effective at current funding levels, suggests a new study. Researchers found people who received assistance through the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) fared no better than people in similar conditions who were not eligible or didn’t enroll in the program. “Our insights were maybe not surprising, but it’s the first time something like this has been documented,” Eric Rimm told Reuters Health. SNAP – formerly known as food stamps – is the largest U.S. food assistance program and reached approximately 45 million people in 2011, Rimm and his colleagues write in the Journal of Nutrition Education and Behavior.