I had a conversation with a young mom who was surprised to hear some of the new guidelines for feeding infants in the current Dietary Guidelines for Americans, 2020-2025 (www.dietaryguidelines.gov).

Families across our area are relying on food banks and pantries after the food assistance program known as SNAP (Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program) was recently halted as ...

Most moderate-to-late–preterm infants need nutritional support until they are feeding exclusively on their mother’s breast milk. Evidence to guide nutrition strategies for these infants is lacking. We ...

A UC Davis survey found that nearly half of parents resorted to unsafe feeding methods during the infant formula shortage. Nearly half of parents who relied on formula to feed their babies during the ...

As the federal government shutdown endures and funding for the Women, Infants and Children Nutrition program remains in ...

The Salem-based Brightside Project will hold a food distribution event today to provide immediate support to children ...

As families around the United States grapple with the infant formula shortage, some social media commentators have been asking: why don’t people just breastfeed? Isn’t that what everyone did before ...

Cevasco is an assistant professor of American Studies at Rutgers University. She is the author of Violent Appetites: Hunger in the Early Northeast. As families around the United States grapple with ...