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The pandemic's overlooked toll: a surge in childhood obesity
WEBOverall, the obesity rate rose more than 1 percent every calendar year. This year, he projected the health impact of the pandemic by doubling that out-of-school time. According to his estimates, five months of school closures would raise the childhood obesity rate in America by 4.25 percentage points.
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Calorie labeling could save thousands of lives and billions in …
WEBIn as little as five years, calorie labeling on menus could help the country avoid more than 14,000 new cases of heart disease, and over 21,000 new cases of type 2 diabetes, according to a new study published in the Journal of the American Heart Association.These estimates are based on the idea that some eaters, when informed of …
Why are all nutrition studies untrustworthy
WEBLet’s back up a moment. In my February 15 th column, we looked at the many problems in nutritional research: The studies tend to be small and speculative; the effects of any given food or food component tend to be small; research designs are often faulty; and researcher bias is somewhere between rife and universal.All of this …
If food is medicine, why isn't it taught at medical schools
WEBMedical curriculums have been developed historically, foregrounding disciplines like biology, behavior, and disease to the detriment of food and nutrition. In a new report published by the Harvard Food Law and Policy Clinic, researchers write that, on average, students in medical schools across the country spend less than 1 percent of …
Helping low-income women afford healthier food may have …
WEBIn 2009, the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) made a major change to an aspect of federal food assistance: It began helping low-income pregnant women and women with young children afford healthier foods. Previously, families enrolled in the Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants, and Children (WIC) had only been …
Covid-19 safety measures may also have reduced our risk of …
WEBWhen not in the midst of a global public-health crisis, roughly 48 million Americans get sick from a foodborne illness, 128,000 are hospitalized, and 3,000 die every year, according to CDC estimates. But the FoodNet data show that in 2020, the frequency with which people reported a case of foodborne illness declined a whopping 26 percent, …
Making food allergies the focus of food equity The Counter
WEBThe fourth in a series of articles on food equity, aimed at promoting the value and practice of providing access to healthy food for all. Produced with support from Winter-Lehman Family Foundation. Food equity often has to do with eliminating barriers in how people access food. For Emily Brown, food equity also means addressing food allergies.
WIC has proven effective in improving the health of children and
WEBSince 1974, the Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants, and Children (WIC) has proven successful among low-income pregnant and postpartum women and kids up to age 5 in mitigating some effects of malnutrition, including anemia, childhood obesity, low birthweight, and school unreadiness.As many as 12,000 WIC …
New research highlights a shifting priority at food banks: tackling …
WEBStarting in late March 2020, food banks, pantries, and other charitable food organizations experienced a sharp surge in need. That’s around the time Covid-19 restrictions began causing spikes in unemployment, especially among lower-wage workers who may already have been living paycheck to paycheck. The orgs’ increased needs …
How one Alaskan hospital is using Indigenous foods to help …
WEBIn Alaska, where health-care centers around the state are grappling with the worst Covid-19 outbreak in the nation, one Anchorage hospital is using traditional Native foods to help Indigenous patients recover and heal, from the virus and other health ailments, reports The New York Times.Along with typical hospital fare like soup and …
We've had campaigns to combat hunger. Next up: "nutrition …
WEBNutrition security is also popping up in New York City’s mayoral race, where Covid-19 Food Czar Kathryn Garcia’s campaign promised to “fund fresh and culturally relevant food—not just canned goods… [and] expand our emergency food program to provide fresh food for the most vulnerable New Yorkers.”. No one who studies hunger …
Restaurants are feeding healthcare workers now The Counter
WEBMatt Cahn, owner of Middle Child in Philadelphia, was already feeding healthcare workers regularly before he shut down his sandwich shop over concerns about the rapidly growing pandemic. Middle Child sits next to two major hospitals, the Thomas Jefferson University Hospital and Penn Hospital Medicine; their proximity initially …
College food pantries have grown exponentially in recent years, an
WEBIn March, as the City University of New York (CUNY) shut down all of its 25 campuses in response to Covid-19, it nonetheless tried to keep 18 food pantries open to assist thousands of newly food-insecure students. “That was not a very successful strategy,” said Nicholas Freudenberg, director of the CUNY Urban Food Policy Institute, …
How serious safety violations in nursing home kitchens endanger …
WEBPenalties low. However, of the 5,621 citations last year for food safety lapses, only 25 – less than 1 percent — were deemed serious enough to warrant a high-level citation. Nursing home violations are known as “deficiencies” and, typically, only those deemed serious will trigger fines. Tait DeBaca.
This is what trauma-informed hunger relief looks like
WEBThe two-story facility run by Center of United Methodist Aid to the Community (CUMAC) in Northern New Jersey has the look and feel of a standard food bank, with a warehouse, a handful of trucks, a client-choice pantry, and even a small garden. This article is republished from Food Bank News, which seeks to advance best practices in hunger …
The hunt is on to find 5.6M seniors eligible for SNAP, but not …
WEBSeniors are far less likely to enroll in SNAP than other populations, averaging enrollment of only 42 percent of eligible seniors, compared to 83 percent for all age groups, according to the Food Research and Action Center. Nearly 5.6 million seniors are eligible for SNAP but not enrolled, according to the National Council on Aging.
Minnesota built a rural therapy program for farmers struggling to …
WEBRural mental health first gained national attention during the Farm Crisis in the 1980s, experts said. National Farm Medicine Center study found that 913 male farmers died by suicide in Wisconsin, Minnesota, North Dakota, South Dakota and Montana from 1980 to 1988, according to a 1991 New York Times article.
Two large U.S. cities have adopted a Good Food Purchasing …
WEBIn September, New York City’s Mayor’s Office of Food Policy released a report titled, “Citywide Goals & Strategy for the Implementation of Good Food Purchasing.”That it wasn’t loudly, roundly celebrated by New Yorkers (assuming they’d heard of it at all) likely had much to do with the dryness of the title and the intricacy of its …
“Cooking is in our DNA as immigrants”: How two men found …
WEBThe commissary at the Stewart Detention Center was Nilson Barahona-Marriaga’s pantry. It was slim pickings, but the 40-year-old immigrant from Honduras made it work, spending his weekends in detention fashioning cakes out of dry cornbread, milk, peanut butter, and jelly, or making pounds of Honduran spaghetti using canned tomato …
After three years, USDA releases previously hidden animal cruelty …
WEBOn Tuesday, the United States Department of Agriculture’s Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (USDA APHIS) announced it had released a searchable database of thousands of inspection reports documenting animal welfare violations at research labs, breeders, dealers, zoos, and other facilities. The agency removed many …
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