Dr. Ana Poblacion and Richard Sheward discuss recent research related to measuring food insecurity, and how ongoing research supports better strategies to reduce food insecurity & its associated health risks. This episode features development & validation of a scale measuring changing levels of food security in households with young children. The work was funded with a small USDA research grant and presented as part of marking 25 years of household food security measurement.&nb...

Find all supporting materials at the Hunger Vital Sign explainer series website. This episode features an interview with Katherine Verlander, Deputy Division Director at the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) Part One of this series featured Children's HealthWatch - find their Hunger Vital Sign materials and background research here. Part Two of this series featured Hunger Free Vermont and their work implementing Hunger Vital Sign in Vermont. Part Three of the series intro...

Find all supporting materials at the Hunger Vital Sign explainer series website. This episode features an interview with Katherine Verlander, Deputy Division Director at the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) Part One of this series featured Children's HealthWatch - find their Hunger Vital Sign materials and background research here. Part Two of this series featured Hunger Free Vermont and their work implementing Hunger Vital Sign in Vermont. Part Three of the series intro...

Find all supporting materials at the Hunger Vital Sign explainer series website. This episode features an interview with Katherine Verlander, Deputy Division Director at the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) Part One of this series featured Children's HealthWatch - find their Hunger Vital Sign materials and background research here. Part Two of this series featured Hunger Free Vermont and their work implementing Hunger Vital Sign in Vermont. Part Three of the series intro...

The Hunger Vital Sign explainer series continues with an introduction to the Accountable Health Communities (AHC) Model at the CMS Innovation Center. This model is testing the results of screening for health-related social needs and offering referral and navigation services to community resources in a health care setting. The Hunger Vital Sign questions make up the food security portion of the AHC screening tool, and food insecurity has been the most common identified need. The guest expert...

Find all supporting materials at the Hunger Vital Sign explainer series website. This episode features an interview with Katy Davis, Community Health Initiatives Director at Hunger Free Vermont. Part One of this series featured Children's HealthWatch - find their Hunger Vital Sign materials and background research here. Audio Editing and Post-Production Provided By Evergreen Audio

Find all supporting materials at the Hunger Vital Sign explainer series website. This episode features an interview with Katy Davis, Community Health Initiatives Director at Hunger Free Vermont. Part One of this series featured Children's HealthWatch - find their Hunger Vital Sign materials and background research here. Audio Editing and Post-Production Provided By Evergreen Audio

Find all supporting materials at the Hunger Vital Sign explainer series website. This episode features an interview with Katy Davis, Community Health Initiatives Director at Hunger Free Vermont. Part One of this series featured Children's HealthWatch - find their Hunger Vital Sign materials and background research here. Audio Editing and Post-Production Provided By Evergreen Audio

Find all supporting materials at the Hunger Vital Sign explainer series website. This episode features an interview with Richard Sheward, Director of Innovative Partnerships at Children's HealthWatch. Citation for the Hunger Vital Sign tool and link to the original research: Hager, E. R., Quigg, A. M., Black, M. M., Coleman, S. M., Heeren, T., Rose-Jacobs, R., Cook, J. T., Ettinger de Cuba, S. E., Casey, P. H., Chilton, M., Cutts, D. B., Meyers A. F., Frank, D. A. (2010). Developme...

Find all supporting materials at the Hunger Vital Sign explainer series website. This episode features an interview with Richard Sheward, Director of Innovative Partnerships at Children's HealthWatch. Citation for the Hunger Vital Sign tool and link to the original research: Hager, E. R., Quigg, A. M., Black, M. M., Coleman, S. M., Heeren, T., Rose-Jacobs, R., Cook, J. T., Ettinger de Cuba, S. E., Casey, P. H., Chilton, M., Cutts, D. B., Meyers A. F., Frank, D. A. (2010). Developme...

Find all supporting materials at the Hunger Vital Sign explainer series website. This episode features an interview with Richard Sheward, Director of Innovative Partnerships at Children's HealthWatch. Citation for the Hunger Vital Sign tool and link to the original research: Hager, E. R., Quigg, A. M., Black, M. M., Coleman, S. M., Heeren, T., Rose-Jacobs, R., Cook, J. T., Ettinger de Cuba, S. E., Casey, P. H., Chilton, M., Cutts, D. B., Meyers A. F., Frank, D. A. (2010). Developme...

Find all supporting materials at the Hunger Vital Sign explainer series website. This episode features an interview with Richard Sheward, Director of Innovative Partnerships at Children's HealthWatch. Citation for the Hunger Vital Sign tool and link to the original research: Hager, E. R., Quigg, A. M., Black, M. M., Coleman, S. M., Heeren, T., Rose-Jacobs, R., Cook, J. T., Ettinger de Cuba, S. E., Casey, P. H., Chilton, M., Cutts, D. B., Meyers A. F., Frank, D. A. (2010). Developme...

Find all supporting materials at the Hunger Vital Sign explainer series website. This episode features an interview with Richard Sheward, Director of Innovative Partnerships at Children's HealthWatch. Citation for the Hunger Vital Sign tool and link to the original research: Hager, E. R., Quigg, A. M., Black, M. M., Coleman, S. M., Heeren, T., Rose-Jacobs, R., Cook, J. T., Ettinger de Cuba, S. E., Casey, P. H., Chilton, M., Cutts, D. B., Meyers A. F., Frank, D. A. (2010). Developme...

We're doing something a little different - this series of podcast episodes are a set of conversations explaining the Hunger Vital Sign risk screening tool. They're designed as part of a larger resource with reference materials, key point summaries, and implementation toolkits: https://www.vtfoodinhealth.net/hunger-vital-sign-toolkit If you aren't interested in Hunger Vital Sign, we promised playlists for other entertainment. Here are two: Season Four Extended Playlist - Food & HealthSta...

Find all supporting materials at the Hunger Vital Sign explainer series website. This episode features an interview with Richard Sheward, Director of Innovative Partnerships at Children's HealthWatch. Citation for the Hunger Vital Sign tool and link to the original research: Hager, E. R., Quigg, A. M., Black, M. M., Coleman, S. M., Heeren, T., Rose-Jacobs, R., Cook, J. T., Ettinger de Cuba, S. E., Casey, P. H., Chilton, M., Cutts, D. B., Meyers A. F., Frank, D. A. (2010)...

A season finale. . . with special guests! Edward Phillips, MD, and Juna Gjata, creators of the podcast Food, We Need to Talk, join us to comment on common themes between the two series, and suggest what should be next in your food & health podcast listening line up. The first season of Food, We Need to Talk is available online. Two episodes cited specifically in this conversation were: This Is Your Brain on Cheesecake and Disordered Eating and Eating Disorders. We also talked abou...

This episode brings back previous guests and features a new interview with Christine Hamann, Director of the Teaching Kitchen Collaborative, to talk about cross training and collaboration. It continues our series of episodes that consider how to effectively introduce the food knowledge outlined in the first half of the season into a health care context. Christine references two conferences in this episode: Healthy Kitchens, Healthy Lives (next event is in February 2023)Teaching Kitchen...

We talk with Chris Moldovan, RD, CD, FAND, and Director of Nutrition and Wellness at Age Well, an Area Agency on Aging in northwestern Vermont. Chris is also part of the Older Vermonters Nutrition Coalition. She provides examples of how our relationship with food and diet shifts with age, and explains how organizations like hers help people navigate changing requirements for nutrition. Some of the resources referenced in this episode: Medically Tailored Meals (episode from Season 3)National ...

Professor Amy Trubek, and instructors John Corliss and Emily Barbour, join us to talk about core principles of the courses they are developing in the Department of Nutrition and Food Sciences at the University of Vermont. Their curriculum combines sensory analysis with basic cooking skills to increase food agency. Some resources referenced in this episode: Food Agency Website - including a course in Culinary Nutrition that is offered to interested health professionals through UVM Conti...

Writer Alexandra Johnson helps us get the new year off to a strong start. Among the things she writes about is the practice of journaling to support creativity. You know what we'll all need to put into practice food appreciation as a tool to become adaptable in our diets? Creativity. It's time to redefine how we think about food journals - these aren't the standard food logs of calories and serving sizes, Alex is helping us define a different tool entirely. No surprise, we refer...