Food Price Crisis Can Lead To Deteriorating Nutrition
As fuel prices soar, food prices are beginning to creep up to crisis levels most recently seen in 2007. “Coupled with the financial crisis, high food prices can take a significant toll on nutrition, especially in developing countries,” says Lora Iannotti, PhD, a public health expert and professor at the Brown School at Washington University in St.
April 26, 2011 · by · in Nutritional News · Tags: crisis-levels, developing-countries, financial, financial-crisis, food-prices, fuel-prices, high-food, iannotti, nutrition / diet
One Year After Haiti Earthquake, Brown School Public Health Expert Iannotti Continues Work On The Ground
On Jan. 12, 2010, Lora Iannotti, PhD, nutrition and public health expert at the Brown School at Washington University in St. Louis, was in Leogane, a seaside town 18 miles west of Port au Prince, Haiti, working with local officials on improving the health of Haitian children.
January 11, 2011 · by · in Nutritional News · Tags: brown-school, haiti, health, iannotti, leogane, miles-west, nutrition, nutrition / diet, nutritional counseling, on call diets, poverty, prince, seaside-town, struck-the-poverty
