The Washington Post reports that the Peanut Corporation of America sold 32 truckloads of roasted peanuts and peanut butter to the federal government for a free-lunch program for poor children even as the company's internal tests showed that its products were contaminated with salmonella bacteria. USDA has suspended its contract with the company.

With the nation's third-highest hunger rate, Oregon's Childhood Hunger Initiative wants health care providers to ask themselves whether hunger could be behind some of their patients' problems.

Feeding America, formerly Second Harvest, is urging you to contact Congress to address hunger among working families.

Higher-income fifth grade students in suburban school districts are no more likely to have access to healthy or unhealthy foods than are their lower-income, urban peers, according to a new Child Trends study. However, schools attended by higher-income students offer their students a greater selection of both healthy and unhealthy food choices -- and more than half of elementary schools offer access to food that doesn't have to meet federal nutrition standards.

The federal school nutrition programs are the second largest federal funding source for public schools (after Title I), but that doesn't stop schools from losing money on nutrition programs. Many districts are considering tough choices, even as more families rely on the programs. The New America Foundation's Federal Education Budget Project has the only searchable and downloadable source of district-level federal school nutrition data around. (Click on a state to find the information.)

The average family meal lasts barely 20 minutes -- and that's a major missed opportunity, according to a new brief from the Society for Research in Child Development. Sharing a meal regularly can boost children's health and well-being, reducing the likelihood that they'll become obese or use drugs and increase the odds that they'll do well in school.

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.