A lack of nutritious food consumption can lead to long-term health issues and complications. We’ve seen these effects on our Medicare and Medicaid populations, particularly.

New research demonstrates a swift directional relationship between food insecurity and increased anxiety and depression, highlighting the urgent need for interventions to improve mental health.

The struggle to keep food in their homes could cause Americans long-term health issues. That is according to a study published online on Sage Journals.

Health Risks of Food Insecurity. If you can't get the right amount of food, or enough healthy food, you're more likely to have health problems: Lifelong disease.

These are some of the adults’ outcomes affected by food insecurity: micronutrient deficiencies, lower diet quality, poorer sleep outcomes, lower physical activity, smoking, lower overall health ...

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Almost fifty million people are food insecure in the United States, which makes food insecurity one of the nation’s leading health and nutrition issues. We examine recent research evidence of ...

Lack of access to nutritious food has long-term consequences. Food insecurity is a social driver of health, and several areas in Davidson County and Middle Tennessee are at increased risk.

Overall, 18.4% of the people were food insecure: 10.3% experienced low food security and 8.1% experienced very low food security. About 11% of individuals aged 65 years or older in 2013 said they ...

Shielding children from food insecurity -- no protection from psychological problems Large-scale Canadian study also suggests mental health of adults suffers when unable to shield children ...

The Great Recession of December 2007–June 2009 increased food insecurity to the highest levels ever measured in the United States. ... behavioral problems, and health status of young children.

As of 2022, food insecurity affected 8,400 people in Augusta County, 9,050 in Rockingham County and 8,100 in Harrisonburg, according to Feeding America. Sinclair said due to the environments in ...