A new report by researchers at the University of Toronto shows that almost four million Canadians are struggling to put the food they need on the table because of food insecurity.
Jul 25, 2013
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Recent U.S. government data shows that 11% of households experienced food insecurity in the past year. Food insecurity, which is defined by lacking dependable access to enough food for active and healthy living, can be especially ...
Aug 5, 2020
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Our recent survey found that schools can affect the mental health and well-being of not just students but their parents, too.
Nov 3, 2020
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About 5.8 million Americans miss or delay medical care annually because of transportation barriers. This has a major impact on their ability to take care of their health. Na'amah Razon, assistant professor of family and community ...
Apr 6, 2022
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When Laura Samuel talks about food insecurity, she often draws upon her own experiences spending part of her youth in a mobile home in coastal Maine, one of six children in a hardworking family that often faced tough choices ...
Oct 4, 2023
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There is a growing recognition in health care that social factors such as racial bias, access to care and housing and food insecurity, have a significant impact on people's health. Compounding and amplifying those underlying ...
Mar 1, 2021
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Serving free breakfast in New York City's classrooms has boosted the number of students eating what some consider the most important meal of the day at school, according to research by New York University's Institute for ...
Mar 30, 2016
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A study reviewing data from nearly 3,000 counties in the United States has found that living in a community with easy access to grocery stores and affordable, healthy food is associated with lower heart failure death rates, ...
Oct 25, 2022
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Hunger does not respect age. A recent report comparing data from 2007 to 2015 finds 5.4 million people age 60 or older in the U.S., or 8.1 percent, are food insecure. Although this percentage went down from 2014 to 2015, ...
Sep 6, 2017
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A study aiming to determine whether a relationship exists between constructs of Indigeneity and untreated caries in First Nations children in Manitoba and Ontario, controlling for selected, was presented at the 102nd General ...
Mar 19, 2024
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