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Most people in their 50s and older were capable home cooks just before COVID-19 struck America, but only 5% had ordered groceries online, according to a new national poll.
Even before the coronavirus pandemic wreaked havoc with the nation's food supply and economy, one in seven adults between the ages of 50 and 80 already had trouble getting enough food because of cost or other issues, a new poll finds.
Michigan Public Health student Anthony Dang and his team earned the top prize at the 2020 Innovation in Action competition. The four-person team created Heard, an app designed to digitally connect individuals with chronic illness to peer support.
Experts at the University of Michigan School of Public Health discuss the impact of closing schools until the end of the year, including how this could exacerbate existing health and housing disparities.
Parents who experience food insecurity might think they're protecting their children from their family's food situation by eating less or different foods so their children can be spared, but a new study from assistant professor of Nutritional Sciences, Cindy Leung, shows that children know more about food insecurity than their parents give them credit for.
Although harnessing renewable energy or enabling electric-vehicle transportation may be more visible efforts toward carbon neutrality, another area crucial to any push toward climate action is one that U-M students, staff and faculty encounter regularly: food.