Hunger and Health
Our health and nutrition research focuses on the roles that food, community-based interventions, and food bank-healthcare partnerships have on improving outcomes.
Food insecurity and health are intricately linked.
People living in food insecure homes experience challenges in accessing nutritious foods and face barriers to consistently adopting healthy eating patterns. A poor quality diet that lacks nutritious food has detrimental effects on a person's physical and mental health. To learn more about the intersection of food insecurity and health, access research studies, toolkits, evidence reviews, and various spotlight briefs below.
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Research Studies Comprehensive Diabetes Self-Management Support From Food Banks: A Randomized Controlled Trial (2018) The Power of Nudges: Making the Healthy Choice the Easy Choice in Food Pantries (2016)
Toolkits and Evidence Reviews Food Bank-Health Care Partnerships Toolkit Nutrition in Food Banking Toolkit
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"A Closer Look" Spotlights Spotlight on Child Health and Nutrition Spotlight on Colorectal Cancer Spotlight on Heart Disease (CVD)
"At First Glance" Spotlights Spotlight on Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders |
