Nutrition Security

Nutrition Security

Top of Mind with Julie Rose

Fact-Checking Presidents, Nutrition Security, Dictator Faces

Episode: Fact-Checking Presidents, Nutrition Security, Dictator Faces

  • May 10, 2021 8:00 pm
  • 15:36 mins

Hunger, or food insecurity, was once a huge concern for poor American families. The prevalent problem nowadays is nutrition insecurity. Americans with low incomes are much more susceptible to obesity and diabetes than wealthier Americans, and the issue links back to the kinds of food they can afford. Cardiologist and dean of the School of Nutrition Science and Policy at Tufts University Darius Mozaffarian explains.