729 - Hidden Food Insecurity: The Adolescents Who Aren’t Getting Enough to Eat
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English - March 06, 2024 11:00 - 16 minutes - 22.9 MB - ★★★★★ - 559 ratingsNews Health & Fitness Medicine covid covid19 education health science coronavirus globalhealth medicine novelcoronavirus publichealth Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
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Food insecurity uniquely impacts youth ages 14-18 but it’s largely a hidden problem. Kristen Mmari, an adolescent health researcher at Johns Hopkins, talks with Lindsay Smith Rogers about the long-term impacts being hungry can have on young people and why most programs aimed at relieving food insecurity don’t help this age group. They also discuss false claims that nutrition assistance programs contribute to childhood obesity. Learn more: https://ajph.aphapublications.org/doi/full/10.2105/AJPH.2023.307489