Impact ofFood Insecurity on Kids

Impact ofFood Insecurity on Kids

Top of Mind with Julie Rose - Radio Archive, Episode 205 , Segment 5

Episode: Police Shootings, Unreliable Senses, Gender and Career Choice

  • Jan 5, 2016 10:00 pm
  • 12:42 mins

Guest: Rachel Kimbro, PhD, Associate Professor of Sociology at Rice University and the Associate Director of the Kinder Institute's Urban Health Program  Being hungry is never fun. Living in perpetual hunger – or even just the threat of it – is more damaging to children than previously thought. Sociology professor Rachel Kimbro has just published work looking at what happens to the behavior and mental health of young children when they suddenly find themselves “food insecure.” The results suggest there’s a lasting effect – even into adulthood.

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Increasing Understanding of Islam

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Guest:  Morgan Davis, PhD, Assistant Research Fellow at BYU’s Neal A. Maxwell Institute for Religious Scholarship, Director of the Middle Eastern Texts Initiative  The US Department of Education this week sent out an urgent plea for schools to guard against harassment and discrimination of students because of their race, religion or national origin. The call is a response to anti-Muslim and anti-refugee sentiments that appear to be on the rise since the San Bernardino terror attacks and the ongoing campaign rhetoric of Donald Trump, who says Muslims should temporarily be banned from entering the US.  Fostering understanding of the Muslim faith is a key priority of BYU’s Middle Eastern Texts Initiative, which translates and publishes ancient philosophical writings of Muslims, Jews and Christians into English.

Guest:  Morgan Davis, PhD, Assistant Research Fellow at BYU’s Neal A. Maxwell Institute for Religious Scholarship, Director of the Middle Eastern Texts Initiative  The US Department of Education this week sent out an urgent plea for schools to guard against harassment and discrimination of students because of their race, religion or national origin. The call is a response to anti-Muslim and anti-refugee sentiments that appear to be on the rise since the San Bernardino terror attacks and the ongoing campaign rhetoric of Donald Trump, who says Muslims should temporarily be banned from entering the US.  Fostering understanding of the Muslim faith is a key priority of BYU’s Middle Eastern Texts Initiative, which translates and publishes ancient philosophical writings of Muslims, Jews and Christians into English.