A July 8 Congressional briefing hosted by the Food Research and Action Center (FRAC) and the Afterschool Alliance laid out some surprising facts and inspiring optimism about this fall’s opportunity to build a better food program for the nation’s vulnerable children. CFK has this field report.

The Witness to Hunger program armed 40 mothers with video cameras and set them out to document their lives and what it takes to feed a family in tight times. “These women are the experts on what it’s like to deal with the consequences of what our lawmakers decide,” says the program’s creator Marianna Chilton. On June 2, 2009, these experts took on Capitol Hill.

This site offers educational and advocacy information and support to those impacted by obesity.

This program, from Operation Share Our Strength offers interactive and educational tools to support healthy eating on a tight budget—and 2007 evaluations prove it is effective.

Emerging research suggests that hunger, poverty and obesity may be intricately linked, even though they seem paradoxical. Bread for the World has good background and data.

It may seem strange to some, but the "hunger and obesity paradox" continues to find scientific backing. Periodically going without food has been linked to obesity, as has relying on cheaper, high-calorie foods to cope with a limited food budget.

This Food Research and Action Center (FRAC) factsheet looks at the record-high numbers of people to accessed food stamps, and why one in three eligible people are still going without the benefit.

Check out this blog from the nonprofit Food Research and Action Center (FRAC) for the latest happenings in child nutrition, with easy-to-digest writing about policies, research and what we can all do to help kids eat and live more healthily in and out of school.

Nonprofit programs that improve nutrition, support children and families, provide early intervention, correct problem behavior and enhance self-esteem, prevent substance abuse, prevent physical/emotional abuse, create better home environments and/or promote physical/emotional health might be eligible for grants from the Herbalife Foundation.

The National Institutes of Health (NIH) is accepting grants for its Translation Research on the Prevention and Control of Diabetes and Obesity. The aim of this program is to promote cost effective and sustainable interventions that translate into real world settings for the prevention and control of diabetes and obesity. The emphasis of various proposals is focused on minorities and other high-risk populations. Deadline: October 1, 2006.