If your food stamps have been cut, your health may be at risk. Those are the findings of researchers at Hennepin County Medical Center and the University of Minnesota. Their research, published in tomorrow's issue of the Journal of the American Medical Association, concludes patients whose food stamps have been cut have a higher incidence of hunger, and poorer health. Dr. Nicole Lurie is a professor of medicine and public health at the University. She discovered the problem after seeing a patient who had stopped taking her insulin because she was no't eating the food needed for the medication to work properly: Dr. Nicole Lurie, a professor of medicine at the University of Minnesota.