When one of our neighbors is unsure of where their next meal is going to come from, they are experiencing food insecurity. Recently, Spectrum News 13 spoke with Second Harvest Food Bank of Central Florida's Karen Broussard on how food insecurity affects kids during the summer and the correlation between health and hunger. Watch the video below. … [Read more...] about Second Harvest Goes “In Depth” with News 13 on Health & Hunger
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Caring for the well-being of our community
On a warm spring morning, cars wrapped around neighborhood streets in Altamonte Springs for two mobile distributions, one for food from a Second Harvest Food Bank feeding partner, the other for COVID-19 vaccinations courtesy of the Seminole County Health Department. The connection between health and hunger is paramount to combatting diet-related chronic diseases. It's also … [Read more...] about Caring for the well-being of our community
Food-insecure families need help getting nutritious meals
It won’t come as a shock that American diets aren’t the most nutritious. Karen Broussard, Second Harvest Food Bank's vice president of agency relations and programs, writes in The Orlando Sentinel about how the COVID-19 pandemic is increasing the chronic illnesses of hunger. Her guest column appeared on March 18, 2021 online and in print on March 19. According to the … [Read more...] about Food-insecure families need help getting nutritious meals
