Our last blog post entitled “In the Numbers” took a hard look at demographics and speculated about how the aging of the Millennials and Gen Xers might impact senior hunger rates in the future. Today we want to return our focus to the present (and include a bit of past...

In our past two posts we have looked at the influence that so-called Baby Boomers and Millennials have exercised over food – on what we eat and on how they (and we) think about food. Today we want to consider the impact that the swelling numbers of Millennials and the...

There is little to dispute that statement. Food, as we all know, is critical to maintaining life and health. Everyone does have to eat, but not everyone has to, or even wants to, eat the same things. The evidence of that can be found in the aisles of every supermarket...

Here at NFESH it is not unusual to answer the phone and find a reporter with questions about our senior hunger research on the other end of the line. Typically, those callers cover news beats focused on aging or health or poverty or safety net programs. In other...

It’s no news that 2018 is upon us. A new year represents an opportunity for organizations to engage in novel thinking, consider change, to adopt “resolutions” in the hope of bettering their work. Here at NFESH we did not adopt those kinds of resolutions as much as...

That is the question that Shakespeare made famous more than 400 years ago and that we still hear often repeated today. There is something about a compelling question that grabs our attention and holds it. It demands an answer and that makes us think. Here at NFESH...

One of the most beneficial aspects of NFESH’s What A Waste project is the involvement of the seniors at participating senior centers. There is a pride, almost a feeling of ownership, that seniors have for “their” senior center. It is such a wonderful process to watch...

For the legions of Baby Boomers who have already turned 60 and thus are eligible to receive meals provided by senior nutrition programs, “You are what you eat” is a familiar saying. Proponents of the macrobiotic wholefoods movement adopted it as their slogan back in...

Having worked in the State of West Virginia and driven the country roads there, it is easy for us to understand how John Denver would have referred to it as “almost heaven” in the song he made famous in the 1970s.  The natural landscape, crowned by the Blue Ridge...

Hunger among the elderly is not a new phenomenon. In fact, we can’t even say that it is totally a factor of the economic woes of the present world. Hunger among the elderly has existed as long as old people have lived on this earth. In other words, forever. It just...