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 …

The US Department of Agriculture's Economic Research Service leads the federal
government in data development and research on food security in US households. Nutrition …

OBJECTIVES: Food insecurity is an important public health problem facing children in the
United States. Although a number of previous studies suggest that food insecurity has …

Objective: To validate the telephone modality of the Latin American and Caribbean Food
Security Scale (ELCSA) included in three waves of a phone survey to estimate the monthly …

Food insecurity is now recognized as a major health crisis in the United States. This is due to
the size of the problem—more than 42 million persons were food insecure in 2015—as well …

Rates of food insecurity skyrocketed during the COVID‐19 pandemic, doubling overall and
tripling among households with children. Even before the pandemic, the rate of food …

The COVID‐19 pandemic in the spring of 2020 resulted high levels of unemployment, higher
food prices, and loss of business sales. This deterioration in households' financial status …

Integrative explanations of why obesity is more prevalent in some sectors of the human
population than others are lacking. Here, we outline and evaluate one candidate …

Household food insecurity is a serious public health concern in high-income countries.
Canada and the USA regularly monitor household food insecurity, while in other countries …

Approximately 20% of all children in the United States live in poverty, which exists in rural,
urban, and suburban areas. Thus, all child health clinicians need to be familiar with the …