Kara Ryan
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September 30, 2011
If you’ve been following the Comer Bien series --a project of the National Council of La Raza (NCLR) , the largest national Latino civil rights and advocacy group in the U.S.--you know by now that Latino kids are going hungry at unacceptable rates and, at the same time, experiencing record levels of overweight and obesity. At the heart of both Latino child obesity and hunger is poor access to healthy foods. This means that economic and environmental factors—often called “ social determinants of health ” in the public health and policy world—make it difficult for Hispanics and other...
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July 22, 2011
One day in late March, I visited a southwestern Idaho farmworker housing complex with April Flores Mason. April is a Nutrition Services Specialist for a Migrant and Seasonal Head Start program run by Community Council of Idaho , a nonprofit organization that provides services to farmworker families across the state and an Affiliate of the National Council of La Raza (NCLR) , the largest national Latino civil rights and advocacy organization in the U.S. For families in this Idaho community, buying affordable, healthy food is a significant challenge. Food insecurity is a common struggle for...
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