Up to 40 percent of food that is produced in the U.S. goes to waste and it’s impacting our health, according to USF College of Public Health doctoral candidate Whitney Fung Uy. She’s the principal investigator of an interdisciplinary USF student effort to take food waste on campus and turn it into […]

Katie Jones, registered dietitian at USF’s Student Health Services and Center for Student Well-Being, was providing nutrition counseling for students when she noticed that some of her recommendations on how to maintain balanced eating habits were not feasible and too expensive for some students. Jones would often hear students say […]

There is a new face to those who lack access to affordable, nutritious food, according to USF College of Public Health’s Dr. Lauri Wright. “When people think of food insecure hunger, they think of the commercials they see on TV of starving children with skinny arms and distended bellies, but […]

“When you look at a box of cereal and it’s past its use by date, who cares,” says, a food safety expert in the USF College of Public Health. “If you haven’t opened that product it’s good for another couple of years.” An estimated 15% of US households are food […]