Food and Nutrition

The resurgence in the Louisville business community’s interest in socially responsible companies is evident in the popularity of Canopy, a new initiative to foster businesses that do good as an integral part of their overall mission.

About two years ago today, the Kroger Co. announced its decision to close the only full-service grocery store in downtown Louisville. Overnight, thousands of Louisvillians —many of them struggling with limited resources — were left without a place nearby to purchase basic necessities.

Could the University of Louisville develop a research grocery store where students test business practices while residents have a place to shop?

In Louisville's Hazelwood neighborhood, where a third of the residents live in poverty, an urban farm has grown from the site of a former low-income housing complex.

Louisville neighborhoods without grocery stores have higher risks of developing illnesses. And it's costing us millions in emergency health care.

Day after day, we listened to families’ stories. And we hoped to God that we told them in a way that made others care.

An inaccurate census would deprive vulnerable communities of vital public and private resources, writes civil rights advocate LaGloria Wheatfall.

An estimated 755,000 people would lose benefits over the next three years if the rule change proposed by the USDA goes into effect.

The move to push tribes onto reservations came with health consequences. Traditional diets were harder to access, which meant people couldn’t hunt or gather traditional foods or ingredients for medicines.

The microbiome field is full of association stories, and it's easy for journalists to fall into the trap of mistaking correlation for causation when reporting on exciting research findings.