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EPISODE · Apr 16, 2025 · 25 MIN

Food, Nutrition, & Health: A Different Type of Hunger w/ Heather Thomas

from Health Affairs This Week · host Health Affairs

Welcome to the final episode in a special four-part series from Health Affairs on the intersection of food, nutrition, and health. This special series compliments the release of a theme issue on food, nutrition, and health, which is currently available to read.In this episode, Health Affairs' Jessica Bylander and Ellen Bayer speak with Heather Thomas from the nonprofit A Place to Stand about her Narrative Matters essay from the issue, "A Different Type of Hunger."The essay explores Thomas' experience fighting to access and maintain food benefits in the US as a mother of six whose family is food insecure.Order the Food, Nutrition, and Health Issue.

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