Sentences with phrase «of childhood hunger»

There are a lot of moving parts right now and everyone recognizes our dual problems of childhood hunger and obesity.

There is a true epidemic of childhood hunger in this country.

One student group chose to make a video on the impact of childhood hunger.

While childhood obesity continues to emerge as one of the major stories in our national conversation, here at Beyond Breakfast we want to make sure the issue of childhood hunger stays on the forefront as well.

A new edition of No Kid Hungry's Hunger In Our Schools report surveyed three groups on the front lines of childhood hunger — families, teachers and kids themselves — and found alarming statistics about the challenges for those facing hunger.

You might take a moment to read this recent Civil Eats piece by Elizabeth Grossman, «The Long Shadow of Childhood Hunger,» for the distressing answers to those questions.

FRAC releases the most comprehensive nationwide study of childhood hunger ever conducted — the Community Childhood Hunger Identification Project — which estimates that 1 in 8 children under the age of 12 in this country is hungry.

I don't know if you're a new reader of TLT, but quite early on I began to raise this issue so that we don't get so focused on obesity that we forget the very real problem of childhood hunger.

«I support the School Nutrition Foundation for all the great things it does for the Profession of School Nutrition and the awareness it brings to School Meal Programs and the issues of Childhood Hunger.»

Each September, No Kid Hungry hosts a national fundraising program that brings together thousands of restaurants and millions of consumers to help raise funds for the cause and to generate a dialogue about the problem of childhood hunger..

And I'm keenly aware of the problem of childhood hunger, which is why I've been an advocate for five years working to support and improve the National School Lunch Program, which serves almost 32 million kids a day, 21 million of whom are economically disadvantaged.

«The big news in this whole area (of childhood hunger) is that there is already such a program that every community could have.