Connecting Food Insecurity to Chronic Disease

KUAF | By Jacqueline Froelich

Published July 20, 2016 at 4:11 PM CDT

Representatives from state and national hunger relief organizations gathered at the Jones Center in Springdale yesterday for the first time to discuss ways to encourage clients to make healthy food choices to deter chronic disease.

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