The Future of Employment-The Diet for a Healthy Lifestyle

Craig Gundersen, PhD, Soybean Industry Endowed Professor in Agricultural Strategy, Professor in the College of Agricultural, Consumer and Environmental Sciences Department of Agricultural and Consumer Economics at the University of Illinois led a study that found that 5.4 million people age 60 or older in the U.S., or 8.1 percent, did not have enough food for an active, healthy lifestyle. He explained how food insecurity adversely affects a senior citizen's health, and why many low income seniors fail to take advantage of government programs available to them.