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 “Well I don’t know how […]

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 what it looks like today […]

“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 insecure despite the fact that […]