Food and Nutrition

Medical professionals and researchers have long studied the effect of adverse childhood experiences (ACEs) and lifelong mental health and addiction. Now awareness is growing of the link between childhood trauma on long-term physical health.

The Courier Journal has received support from the University of Southern California's Center for Health Journalism to embark on a project about food insecurity in Louisville, with the goal of presenting solutions that fit our community.

Over the past decade, study after study has shown that thousands of people who live within certain areas of Louisville don't have adequate access to food.

This reporting is supported by the USC Annenberg Center for Health Journalism Impact Fund. 
 

This work is supported by a grant from the USC Annenberg Center for Health Journalism Impact Fund....

This reporting is supported by the USC Annenberg Center for Health Journalism Impact Fund. 
 

Folks in underserved New Jersey face adversities that few in America ever even have to think about. How can the state turn the corner in addressing epidemic levels of trauma?

At one of the busiest public hospitals in the nation, doctors are making a big push to better address the underlying forces shaping health.

A reporter sets out to make the issue of food insecurity hit home — both for the average reader and Louisville's leaders.

Decades of research have underscored the health benefits of breastfeeding for mothers and babies. You wouldn't know that from recent U.S. moves at the World Health Assembly.