Doctors Play A Role In Helping End Hunger

NPR Illinois | 91.9 UIS | By Maureen Foertsch McKinney

Published January 5, 2016 at 11:22 AM CST

You are what you eat. Those with the worst eating habits face the most negative health consequences. So doctors, especially those with low-income patients, should be asking questions and offering information about good nutrition.

That’s the point made by University of Illinois economist Craig Gunderson in a paper published in November in the journal Health Affairs. Health care professionals should screen for food insecurity, he wrote.

For more information go to: http://content.healthaffairs.org/content/34/11/1830.full

University of Illinois economist Craig Gendersen

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Maureen Foertsch McKinney

Maureen Foertsch McKinney is news editor and equity and justice beat reporter for NPR Illinois, where she has been on the staff since 2014 after Illinois Issues magazine’s merger with the station. She joined the magazine’s staff in 1998 as projects editor and became managing editor in 2003. Prior to coming to the University of Illinois Springfield, she was an education reporter and copy editor at three local newspapers, including the suburban Chicago Daily Herald, She has a bachelor’s degree in journalism from Eastern Illinois University and a master’s degree in English from UIS.

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