Tag: hunger
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Residents of Bourbon County and the Central Appalachian Coalfield are some of the nation’s most sleep-deprived
Bourbon County residents are some of the nation’s most sleep-deprived, according to county-level data from a study by the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The study is based...
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Newspapers across the state are reporting about school lunch and nutrition programs, of great interest to readers with students
Kentucky newspapers are writing about school meals, against the backdrop of controversy about federal nutrition guidelines, and these are stories with a high level of interest among a key demographic...
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School nutritionists’ lobbying group, freshly funded by grocery makers, wants more funding and flexibility with school-lunch rules
School nutrition officials want more flexibility with new school lunch rules to cut down on the waste of unwanted food, Spencer Chase reports for Agri-Pulse, a Washington newsletter. Julia Bauscher, president of...
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UK gets $2.5 million for rural child poverty nutrition center
L-R: Nancy Cox, dean of UK’s College of Agriculture, Foodand Environment; Secy. Tom Vilsack; Gov. Steve Beshear. Kentucky Health News Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack announced at the University of Kentucky...
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Appalachians Together Restoring the Eating Environment to help Eastern Kentucky communities develop local, healthy foods
A new project searches for ways to increase access to healthy foods in Eastern Kentucky and looks to communities to find these solutions. Appalachians Together Restoring the Eating Environment, or...
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17 percent of Kentuckians lack food security; beef council to help on local level with donations to food banks
More than 750,000 people in Kentucky, 17 percent of those living in the commonwealth, do not always know where they will find their next meal, according to Feeding America’s Map...
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You can do this, too: Lexington church’s fresh food program reaches out to lower income neighbors with deep discount
Rick Courtney loads tomatoes into a crate bound for Fresh Stop (Herald-Leader photo by Charles Bertram) Fresh produce comes to the church-goers of Fresh Presbyterian Church of Lexington every Sunday...