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Tracy @tcshields.bsky.social · 3d

This looks fantastic! Already registered and looking forward to learning #medlibs

Tracy @tcshields.bsky.social · 9d

maman has switched out the kale for arugula in the papa's breakfast bowl and it is nowhere near what it was. I am so disappointed.

Tracy @tcshields.bsky.social · 17d

One of my recent reads that looks at the politics of food: "Ruin Their Crops on the Ground" by Andrea Freeman
us.macmillan.com/books/978125...

Ruin Their Crops on the Ground

Winner of the Los Angeles Times Book Prize in HistoryWinner of the James Beard Media Award in Food Issues and AdvocacyThe first and definitive history of the...

us.macmillan.com

Tracy @tcshields.bsky.social · 17d

See also: fivebooks.com/best-books/h...

Hunger in the United States

Hunger in the United States is not going to be solved just by giving people more food, says Mariana Chilton, a professor of public health at Drexel University and author of The Painful Truth about Hun...

fivebooks.com

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Tracy @tcshields.bsky.social · 17d

Recommended reading list on food insecurity from NC State University Libraries: www.lib.ncsu.edu/recommended-...

Food Insecurity: Recommended Reading

December 2022During December 2022, the Libraries is featuring these books about food insecurity in a special display in the Hill Library's Learning Commons.Including both physical books and eboo

www.lib.ncsu.edu

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Tracy @tcshields.bsky.social · 17d

A few more things...
If you are interested in food (in)security, food justice, and "food as medicine", check out the Aspen Institute's Food & Society program:
aspenfood.org

Food & Society - Food & Society

Food & Society at the Aspen Institute brings together public health leaders, policymakers, researchers, farmers, chefs, food makers, and entrepreneurs to find practical solutions to food system challe...

aspenfood.org

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Tracy @tcshields.bsky.social · 17d

If you need help, you can find a local food bank here: www.feedingamerica.org
If you want to help, look into local food banks or cooperatives that can assist. Feeding America is one place to start. 92.5% of support goes to food procurement
source: www.feedingamerica.org/sites/defaul...

www.feedingamerica.org

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Tracy @tcshields.bsky.social · 17d

Working directly for Uncle Sam doesn't insulate you from food insecurity. US military personnel have food insecurity, and that can impact readiness. "[S]tudies of individual military installations have demonstrated food insecurity rates between 15% and 33%"
source: www.ers.usda.gov/publications...

Comparing Food Insecurity Among the U.S. Military and Civilian Adult Populations | Economic Research Service

Readiness is a cornerstone of military service. Military readiness includes cognitive and physical abilities to train and execute missions. Previous studies among civilians demonstrate that food secur...

www.ers.usda.gov

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Tracy @tcshields.bsky.social · 17d

Food security is a range from no problems or limitations accessing food to altering eating habits because of quality or quantity, and everything in between. In 2023, 96% of US households surveyed reported they could not afford to eat balanced meals.
source: www.ers.usda.gov/topics/food-...

Food Security in the U.S. - Definitions of Food Security | Economic Research Service

www.ers.usda.gov

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Tracy @tcshields.bsky.social · 17d

Food security/insecurity is a problem that touches everyone, whether you know it or not. Anyone could be at risk of not having enough food or inadequate nutrition.

"13.5 percent (18.0 million) of U.S. households were food insecure at some time during 2023"
source: www.ers.usda.gov/topics/food-...

Food Security in the U.S. - Key Statistics & Graphics | Economic Research Service

www.ers.usda.gov

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Tracy @tcshields.bsky.social · 17d

I haven't been able to stop thinking about this, so here's a quick thread, with some curated #medlibs sources

Tracy @tcshields.bsky.social · 19d

This press release is wild. Food (in)security is an ongoing issue in the US, whether the govt thinks it is or not. Go grab the past ones while you can: www.ers.usda.gov/publications...

www.usda.gov/about-usda/n...

Screenshot of text that reads:
"The U.S. Department of Agriculture announced the termination of future Household Food Security Reports. These redundant, costly, politicized, and extraneous studies do nothing more than fear monger.

For 30 years, this study—initially created by the Clinton administration as a means to support the increase of SNAP eligibility and benefit allotments—failed to present anything more than subjective, liberal fodder. Trends in the prevalence of food insecurity have remained virtually unchanged, regardless of an over 87% increase in SNAP spending between 2019 - 2023.

USDA will continue to prioritize statutory requirements and where necessary, use the bevy of more timely and accurate data sets available to it."

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Tracy @tcshields.bsky.social · 17d

And if you are hungry or don't have (enough) food, that's your own fault - bootstraps and all that - so why should the govt care anyway? 🙃

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Tracy @tcshields.bsky.social · 19d

#medlibs

Tracy @tcshields.bsky.social · 19d

This press release is wild. Food (in)security is an ongoing issue in the US, whether the govt thinks it is or not. Go grab the past ones while you can: www.ers.usda.gov/publications...

www.usda.gov/about-usda/n...

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Tracy @tcshields.bsky.social · 19d

This feels like a personal attack 🤣
(I love this so hard)

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Tracy @tcshields.bsky.social · 19d

This press release is wild. Food (in)security is an ongoing issue in the US, whether the govt thinks it is or not. Go grab the past ones while you can: www.ers.usda.gov/publications...

www.usda.gov/about-usda/n...

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Tracy @tcshields.bsky.social · 24d

Well. That's not a good sign.

MR INFO @mr-info.bsky.social · 24d

Only found out about this today (we use it for DOCLINE delivery): "The NNLM will end support for delivery.nnlm.gov on Friday, December 19th 2025. The document delivery site will no longer be available after that date, and it will not be replaced with a similar service." #MedLibs

NNLM | NNLM Delivery

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Tracy @tcshields.bsky.social · Sep 10

I need that on a tshirt, tote, and sticker - stat. 😍

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Tracy @tcshields.bsky.social · Sep 10

So yeah, that's... something. So glad the Secretaries of Education and Health and Human Services schooled me in a WaPo opinion piece about... whatever.

I'm holding back so much snark and disdain at this point I might injure myself 🤣🙃

I think I might go eat some chocolate.

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Tracy @tcshields.bsky.social · Sep 10

Let's see, there's also a call out to the book "Bad Therapy: Why the Kids Aren't Growing Up" by Abigail Shrier that links to Amazon. Wonder if anyone gets a kickback from that?

There's a few more links but not to actual literature or evidence, so I'll stop here.

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Tracy @tcshields.bsky.social · Sep 10

I don't have the energy to see what that narrative review cites or fact check it. This little bit on chocolate (under Carbohydrates) did jump out at me though.

IDK, you think that implies chocolate consumption leads to violence? More like the opposite in my experience. 😂🥰🍫

screenshot of text that reads: "Chocolate often evokes happy feelings and reduces tension. The antidepressant effect of chocolate is due to its psychoactive chemical content, such as anandamides, which target opioid receptors in the central nervous system [45]. In a study conducted by Moreno-Dominguez et al. [46], excessive chocolate consumption was associated with more anxiety than moderate/low consumption."

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Tracy @tcshields.bsky.social · Sep 10

Narrative, so nothing approaching gold standard evidence synthesis like SR, meta-analysis, etc. with this listed as methods. All I can do about the "search" methods is sigh deeply and wish I had a dollar for every sus search I see described in the literature.

screenshot of text that reads
"Methods: The study is a narrative review. “Scopus”, ‘Web of Science’, ‘PubMed’ and ‘Google Scholar’ databases were used for literature search. The words “nutrition”, “crime”, “violence”, “psychology”, “psychology”, “behavior” and their combinations were used as keywords in the literature search and articles published between 2000 and 2024 were examined. After excluding articles whose full text could not be accessed and articles that were found to be missing important methodological details, 45 studies were included in the review."

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Tracy @tcshields.bsky.social · Sep 10

Then the second link - the "violent behaviors" part - from that loaded, grammatically incorrect sentence is to this *narrative review* from June of this year: pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC...

Nutrition is Associated with Violent and Criminal Behaviors

Psychological illnesses, mood disorders, anger and violent behaviors, which are increasing at an alarming rate today, not only negatively affect human health but also pose a threat to social life and ...

pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov

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Tracy @tcshields.bsky.social · Sep 10

The PDF notes "new" evidence since FDA looked at the issue in 2011 - again this is dated 2016. So covering 5 years and almost 10 years out of date now, with 8 "new" citations, the most recent being 2014. Also, "antisocial and violent behaviors" show up nowhere in the doc - only "adverse behavior".

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Tracy @tcshields.bsky.social · Sep 10

But don't worry, I found it with some googling. It was published in 2016 and lists the *cough* evidence that supposedly suggest a link between food "bereft of nutrients and loaded with harmful ingredients" that increase antisocial and violent behaviors. OK sure.
PDF: www.cspi.org/sites/defaul...

www.cspi.org

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Tracy @tcshields.bsky.social · Sep 10

That first link goes to this: www.cspi.org/resource/sci..., which has a link to the resource as PDF. Which, LOL doesn't load - instead you get "we can't open this file something went wrong"

Something went wrong indeed.

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