Food insecurity is a challenge the United States has always faced. However, given the COVID-19 pandemic and other factors, food insecurity is affecting more Americans each day. On this episode of allinfoodz, Amit Sharma is joined by Director of the YMCA of Centre County Moshannon Valley Branch Mel Curtis. He discusses the “new hungry” and how the YMCA is helping local communities fight food insecurity.  

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The New Hungry

Allinfoodz covers a variety of food, and foodservice-related topics that aim to answer core questions regarding our food decisions: How, and why we eat food? The process of creating, serving, and eating food can be a personal or social event. Most people think about food frequently during any given day. Furthermore, there are often underlying reasons that might drive how we make our food choices and decisions, whether we are consuming, or offering food to others. Allinfoodz provides a space to share varied and all-inclusive food choice research, stories, narratives and experiences, so that we can learn from each other.

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