NS-134/334: Food Insecurity

Welcome to the NS-134/334 "Healthy Bodies and Food Insecurity" group page. We can use this as a way to keep each other posted about what we're up to with our own projects and to plan the final class session.

Group Members (and email):

 * Greer Harper (gah07)
 * Dana Ouellette (deo07)
 * Hannah Hamavid (hamavid@gmail.com)
 * Lana Adler (eca08)
 * Allegra Fisher (af09)
 * Rachel Bregman (rmb09)

Group Focus:
We are focused primarily on food insecurity and how the access or lack of access to quality foods and resources affects the health and wellbeing of various communities. Below are some of the topics we discussed:


 * urban areas (Boston, Philadelphia, New York City, etc)
 * food aid programs (WIC, SNAP, food pantries/banks)
 * maternal health and chronic disease risk
 * health, allergies, chronic diseases in other countries as compared to the US
 * special diet needs (celiac disease, vegan, etc)
 * disease intervention/prevention programs that are sensitive to culture and tradition
 * health of native populations
 * etc

Group Project:
Instead of a lecture design, we have decided to take a more interactive approach:


 * Assign students a designation of food insecure, food secure, and mildly insecure - they can advance across the room based on how their designation applies to the food security indicator
 * Each group member sets up a "storefront" for class members to purchase food and other items from based on whether or not they are food secure, have a chronic disease like Type 2 Diabetes, have a food intolerance like celiac disease, or are using a food aid program like WIC.

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[] - Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs

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