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Food Insecurity Risk Ranks Composition in England. Credit: University of Southampton A new index developed by researchers at the University of Southampton reveals neighborhoods in the north of England have the highest risk of food insecurity. Published in the journal PLOS ONE, the Food Insecurity Risk Indices can identify risk to a…

Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain Academics from the Griffith Asia Institute (GAI) collaborated with researchers from the Indo-Pacific to examine the risks related to economic hardship and food insecurity that women in the region experienced during the first and second years of the COVID-19 pandemic. The Australian Center for…

Prevalence of water insecurity across 31 low-income and middle-income countries in which nationally representative data were collected in the 2020 Gallup World Poll (n=45 365). Countries displayed in gray are those in which no IWISE data were collected. IWISE=Individual Water Insecurity Experiences. Credit: The Lancet Planetary Health (2022). DOI: 10.1016/S2542-5196(22)00241-8 Countries in Latin America, Asia and Africa have…

The number of Los Angeles County households facing food insecurity dropped by half from 2020 to 2021 but rose again sharply this year. Credit: Sarvani Kolachana More than 800,000 Los Angeles County households—nearly a quarter of the total (24%)—experienced food insecurity over the 12 months ending July 2022, up from 17% in 2021. This follows a sharp drop from 34% in 2020, according to a new study released by Public Exchange…

Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain Instagram users avoid images that reflect their own feelings of insecurity, research has found. A study in partnership with University of Glasgow, the…

The study found that feeding history affects synapses on dopamine neurons as well as dopamine release.The findings imply that young individuals may suffer long-term consequences, particularly in terms of cognitive flexibility.Few studies have examined the impact that feast or famine has on the developing brain in isolation from other variables that contribute to adversity, despite the fact that food insecurity is an issue for a rising proportion of the American population, made much worse by the coronavirus…

Whenever social risk factors arise, “there’s an opportunity for someone to fall through the cracks or experience a delay,” says Phillips, who is now a data scientist at Georgia State University (she was not involved in the research). That delay could take many forms, “whether it’s cancer not diagnosed as early as it should have, receiving treatment, missing appointments, and not getting treatment in the way they should have,” she says.But whether housing insecurity specifically is responsible for increasing cancer…

Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain The way we perceive poverty, hunger and household food insecurity is shaped by media, government policy, public relations, advertising and personal experience. But one persistent strand is the notion that poverty and food insecurity are the result of poor personal choices and priorities. …

Palmyra and its immediate surroundings, 1920s. Credit: Rubina Raja and Palmyra Portrait Project Ancient Palmyra has gripped public imagination since its picturesque ruins were "rediscovered" in the seventeenth century by western travelers. The most legendary story of ancient Palmyra is that of Queen Zenobia, who was ruling over a thriving city in the Syrian Desert and dared to challenge the Roman Empire, but ultimately was…