Por quinto año consecutivo, KTLA 5 presentó el programa de televisión repleto de estrellas “Lead with Love”. Proyecto Ángel de la Alimentación Proporcionado por el Banco Nacional de la Ciudad.
A los presentadores Steven Weber y Jessica Holmes se unieron los copresentadores Loni Love y Alec Mapa y la presentadora de radio Lisa Fox. Otras apariciones incluyeron a la alcaldesa de Los Ángeles, Karen Bass, Jamie Lee Curtis, Sheryl Lee Ralph, Kelly Clarkson, Jason Alexander, Joel, Jen Smart, Eric McCormack, KD Lange, Kathy Griffin, Kristin Chenoweth, Vivica A. Fox, Charo, Amanda Kloots, Jackie Pitt, Michael McDonald, Vincent Rodriguez, Lawrence y Gregory Zarian, la fundadora de Project Angel Food, Marianne Williamson, y otros.
Desde su estreno en junio de 2020, “Lead with Love” ha sidoRecaudó millones de dólares para el trabajo vital del Proyecto Angel Food de alimentar a hombres, mujeres y niños gravemente enfermos en el condado de Los Ángeles. La organización prepara y sirve más de un millón de comidas cada año.
La organización sin fines de lucro cocina y sirve comidas deliciosas y saludables y ofrece asesoramiento nutricional, todo de forma gratuita.
“La comida es medicina” es la filosofía de Angel Food Project. Su principal objetivo es ayudar a las personas a recuperar su salud a través de una nutrición adecuada.
Jessica Holmes de KTLA y el actor Steven Weber presentan Lead with Love, un programa de televisión en beneficio de Project Angel Food, en el canal 5 de KTLA.
John Stamos y Lori Loughlin de “Full House” comparten un mensaje en Lead with Love 5, una campaña televisiva a beneficio de Project Angel Food. 22 de junio de 2024.
Las mujeres de Knots Landing aparecen en Lead with Love, un programa de televisión en beneficio de Project Angel Food el 22 de junio de 2024.
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Steven Weber y Jason Alexander realizan un dueto en Lead with Love 5, un programa de televisión a beneficio de Project Angel Food en KTLA. 22 de junio de 2024.
Kathy Griffin, sin voz, recibió ayuda de Steven Weber durante Lead with Love 5, un programa de televisión a beneficio de Project Angel Food en KTLA. 22 de junio de 2024.
Mensaje grabado de Jamie Lee Curtis para el Project Angel Food Telethon de KTLA. 22 de junio de 2024.
La leyenda de la música latina Charo celebra una importante donación durante Lead with Love 5, un programa de televisión a beneficio de Project Angel Food en KTLA. 22 de junio de 2024.
Carol Burnett grabó un mensaje en Lead with Love 5, un programa de televisión a beneficio de Project Angel Food en KTLA. 22 de junio de 2024.
Mensaje grabado de David Archuleta para Lead with Love 5, un programa de televisión a beneficio de Project Angel Food en KTLA. 22 de junio de 2024.
David Archuleta actúa en Lead with Love 5, un programa de televisión a beneficio de Project Angel Food en KTLA. 22 de junio de 2024.
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Jewel actúa en Lead with Love 5, un programa de televisión a beneficio de Project Angel Food en KTLA. 22 de junio de 2024.
Ziggy Marley actúa en el Teletón Project Angel Food 2024 el 22 de junio de 2024. (KTLA).
La actriz y comediante Jackie Harry conversa con Steven Weber en el programa de televisión Project Angel Food 2024 de KTLA. 22 de junio de 2024. (KTLA)
Project Angel Food prepara y entrega comidas saludables para alimentar a las personas afectadas por enfermedades graves, brindándoles consuelo y esperanza todos los días. Para obtener más información y donar: https://www.angelfood.org/
El viernes es el Día de Atención al Fundador de Nexstar de 2024, y el equipo de KTLA está en Project Angel Food en hollywood Para retribuir a los necesitados.
Cada año, Nexstar, la empresa matriz de KTLA y docenas de otras estaciones de televisión en todo el país, ofrece a los empleados tiempo libre remunerado para ser voluntarios en sus comunidades locales.
Este año, KTLA seleccionó Project Angel Food, que prepara comidas diseñadas médicamente para quienes ya no pueden cocinar por sí mismos.
“Bajo el cuidado de los dietistas registrados de Project Angel Food, y en consulta con el administrador de casos de atención primaria de cada cliente, los clientes reciben asesoramiento nutricional individualizado y un menú personalizado diseñado para satisfacer las necesidades únicas de su diagnóstico y adaptado a sus necesidades específicas”, la organización benéfica dijo en su sitio web “Restricciones y preferencias dietéticas”. “Actualmente, la cocina de Project Angel Food crea 13 tipos diferentes de cada menú”.
Para obtener más información sobre el Proyecto Angel Food, Visita su sitio web.
An on-campus food pantry at the University of Wisconsin–Madison helps students with insufficient money for food.Credit: M. P. King/Wisconsin State Journal/AP/Alamy
Jen Cruz’s life as a PhD student is a world away from her childhood. Although not a member of the tribe, she grew up on Yakama Indian reservation land in Wapato, Washington.
Cruz, a first-generation university student, remembers how families, including hers, would often work for local farmers or fishers in exchange for food to supplement the food stamps and free school lunches that most people on the reservation relied on to get by.
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But once at university, Cruz found that the give and take and sense of community that had helped people to survive just didn’t exist on campus. She relied on food stamps issued by the state during her master’s degree in public health at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor. “I also took out loans and worked several jobs,” she says. “When the stamps ran out, I’d go to the food pantry.” These are distribution centres where people facing hunger can receive donated food, akin to food banks in other parts of the world.
Now four years into a PhD in social epidemiology at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health in Boston, Massachusetts, Cruz no longer thinks of herself as food insecure — unable to count on having enough food to be active and healthy — but things are still tight in a city where the cost of living requires a single adult to earn US$62,500 annually to support themselves.
In addition to working full time on her dissertation, she does 20 hours a week as a researcher for a faculty-member colleague, and also teaches to supplement her $37,000 stipend (Harvard will be raising PhD student stipends to a minimum of $50,000 in July). She shops at a discount farmers’ market where she can buy a week’s worth of produce for $10, and she shares accommodation with two other people to minimize housing costs.
Hard evidence
A study published in February revealed that food insecurity at Harvard is not just anecdotal (N. M. Hammad and C. W. Leung JAMA Netw. Open 7, e2356894; 2024). Commissioned by the dean’s office at Harvard’s School of Public Health, the survey found that 17% of the 1,287 graduate students who responded and 13% of the 458 postdoctoral responders had experienced food insecurity — figures that were on a par with or exceeded those for the general US population (13%).
Respondents reported having to skip meals, cut down their portions and fill up on foods with little nutritional value. Some also reported feeling anxious that they wouldn’t have enough to eat. Food insecurity also correlated with respondents feeling that their housing was at risk because of difficulties with rent or mortgage payments
Widespread issue
The struggle to find enough food is a problem not just at Harvard. Food insecurity on campus is widespread in the United States and elsewhere, with one study reporting that 42% of US undergraduate students on average are unable to feed themselves what they need to stay healthy (B. Ellison et al. Food Policy102, 102031; 2021). To lessen the struggle faced by hungry students, some 750 campuses across the United States have set up food pantries. Research is lacking on food-access issues affecting UK graduate students and postdocs, but a study of 161 UK universities found that food insecurity was “off the scales”, says developmental psychologist Greta Defeyter, who led the work, which is yet to be published. It affected 57% of first-year undergraduate and foundation-year students.
Postdocs celebrate 24% pay boost in one of the world’s most expensive cities
Food insecurity affected 20% of PhD students, “which is much higher than the UK average” of 6–10% of the general population, says Defeyter, who directs the Healthy Living Lab, a food-poverty research group based at Northumbria University in Newcastle.
A 2016 report about food insecurity at the ten campuses of the University of California (UC) system found that 25% of graduate students and 48% of undergraduates didn’t have enough to eat (see go.nature.com/49dedjx).
“We started producing the data to go to the state and say, we have a problem and we need to do something about it,” said Suzanna Martinez, a health-behaviour epidemiologist at UC San Francisco. Martinez led the research in her previous role at the university’s Nutrition Policy Institute in Oakland, California. “Since 2016, the UC system has published updates on food insecurity and actions to address it on its campuses,” she adds. These reports can be accessed online through the university’s Basic Needs Initiative (see go.nature.com/4begaus).
Social stigma
As well as lowering academic performance and increasing the risk of depression, food insecurity is associated with social stigma.
Gwen Chodur, now a postdoc in nutritional biology at UC Santa Cruz, was a key player in the fight for food security while a graduate student in nutrition at the UC Davis. Chodur’s monthly pay in 2016, her first year as a graduate student, was just under $1,700. A first-generation university student who hailed from ‘coal country’ in Pennsylvania, she often skipped lunch as an undergraduate at Pennsylvania State University in University Park. Despite taking on a couple of jobs while there, she says, “I was always one unanticipated expense away from not being able to finish my degree.”
When she started at UC Davis in September 2016, she explains, she didn’t get her first cheque until November, which forced her to get creative with dried beans and rice, or stock up on cans of spaghetti hoops for dinner. “It was very clear to me that higher education wasn’t designed for students like me, and that was very obvious from the first day that I set foot on campus,” she says of the deep-seated sense of impostor syndrome she felt.
PhD students face cash crisis with wages that don’t cover living costs
Chodur soon learnt that many other graduate students had similar struggles. Bolstered by this knowledge, she joined others to launch a separate food pantry, located in the Graduate Student Association office, for colleagues who felt uncomfortable going to the one on campus. “They were saying things like, ‘If I see my students there, that could undermine my authority in the classroom and it would be embarrassing,’” says Chodur.
Safyer McKenzie-Sampson spoke out about the location of the weekly free food market at UC San Francisco. McKenzie-Sampson, who was then a PhD student researching racism and adverse maternal health outcomes in Black communities, says having access to the market was helpful after spending half of her pay on rent. But a return trip to the food market took one hour from the Mission Bay campus, where she lived and worked. “There’d be a group of us with our big green bags collectively doing the walk of shame to the shuttle bus,” she says. Raising the issue repeatedly with her mentor resulted in a second food market opening at the Mission Bay Campus. “She was able to have the right conversations with the right people,” McKenzie-Sampson says.
Even so, McKenzie-Sampson still did not have enough to eat, and often had to track down free food provided at campus meetings. “I don’t know if you have heard of the example of ‘having sleep for dinner’. Well, there definitely were many nights when I had sleep for dinner,” says McKenzie-Sampson, who is now based at Stanford University in California, where she researches racism and ethnicity. She hails from Canada and, like other international students, would at that time have been ineligible for food stamps provided through the state version of the federal Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program.
Legal help
Legislation introduced in California in 2021 broadened eligibility for food stamps in the state’s undergraduates. But food insecurity in graduate students rose by 14 percentage points between 2021 and 2023, after a fall of 5 percentage points between 2016 and 2021.
“At the end of the day, it’s still the dollar amount that impacts graduate students,” says Martinez, noting that their stipends are too high for them to be eligible for food stamps.
Martinez, who advises on basic necessities operations on UC campuses, also attributes the jump to cost of attendance and increases in the cost of living. She says that the 2023 Basic Needs Initiative survey on food insecurity might have been done before pay hikes for graduate students, which took effect after a long-standing and ultimately successful strike over pay and conditions ended in December 2022. According to the university’s latest report on basic necessities, between 2020 and 2023, the US consumer price index rose by 19% and food prices ratcheted up by 24%.
Next phase
Meanwhile, researchers at Harvard are in the next phase of investigating food insecurity on campus, taking a deeper dive into the details of how graduate students and postdocs are weathering it and what they need. Nour Hammad, a PhD student who researches public-health nutrition and is lead author of the study, says a food pantry is planned. The research continues, she adds, “to see how food insecurity impacts academic performance, their physical and mental health, their relationships — just their whole experience”.
Until recently, Cruz was part of those efforts as leader of the Harvard Chan Alliance for Low Income and First Generation Students Organization, an advocacy group that campaigns for better food access for students in need and serves more broadly as a support system. Group chats announce where on campus students can find free food — usually leftover pizza, sandwiches and fruit from meetings.
“I would say all of us PhD students have Tupperware containers at our desks, so if there is food, we can take extra home,” says Cruz. On the day she spoke to Nature, she had scored some cooked chicken breasts: “I was like, that’s going to be my protein for the week.”
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A breast cancer cell (artificially coloured) climbs through a supportive film in a laboratory experiment.Credit: Steve Gschmeissner/SPL
An artificial intelligence (AI) tool could help to identify the origins of cancers that have spread from a previously undetected tumour somewhere else in the body. The proof-of-concept model analyses images of cells from the metastatic cancer to spot similarities with its source — for example, breast cancer cells that migrate to the lungs still look like breast cancer cells. In dry runs, there was a 99% chance that the correct source was included in the model’s top three predictions. A top-three list could reduce the need for invasive medical tests and help clinicians tailor treatments to suit.
US politicians sparred yesterday in the latest of a series of public hearings, notionally about the origins of the SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus, that have highlighted the polarization of US politics. Science editor-in-chief Holden Thorp was in the hot seat as Republicans alleged that government scientists unduly influenced the editors of scientific journals and that, in turn, those publications suppressed the lab-leak hypothesis. Democrats lambasted their Republican colleagues for making such accusations without adequate evidence and for undermining trust in science.
The estimated era when global hot-beverage sensation Coffea arabica arose from a natural mating between two other coffee species, according to an in-depth genetic analysis. (Reuters | 5 min read)
Last week, the top European human-rights court ruled in favour of a group of more than 2,000 older women who said that the Swiss government’s climate inaction violates their right to life and health. But what do such wins actually achieve? Plenty, say analysts: a pivotal case against the Dutch government transformed climate investment and energy policies in the Netherlands. And a case brought by young activists in Germany led to a strengthening of the country’s climate-change targets. In the private sector, litigation has been shown to curb greenwashing and dent company valuations and share prices. And even cases that fail in the courts can raise public awareness of climate issues and help other cases.
• The DASH diet — yes to fruits, vegetables, whole grains and low-fat dairy; no to salt, saturated fat and booze — offers a promising alternative to medication for people with early-stage hypertension.
• The Mediterranean diet — largely similar, but you get moderate amounts of red wine and salt, sometimes supplemented with extra-virgin olive oil or nuts — is associated with positive changes in polycystic ovarian syndrome.
• There are early hints that some people with neurological disorders, from migraine to Alzheimer’s disease, might benefit from avoiding some ingredients, such as caffeine, and including others, such as specific fats.
Researchers caution that more evidence is needed, but large-scale randomized trials of dietary interventions are difficult to conduct, especially where people can’t afford to change what they eat. Policymakers have a role to play, say scientists: stop subsidizing the ingredients of cheap, processed foods and invest in making healthy options easy and accessible for all.
Reviewers should be guided by a transparent set of questions to help make peer-review as trustworthy and robust as possible, suggests Mario Malički, the co-editor-in-chief of the journal Research Integrity and Peer Review. “For example, editors might ask peer reviewers to consider whether the methods are described in sufficient detail to allow another researcher to reproduce the work,” says Malički. “Other aspects of a study, such as novelty, potential impact, language and formatting, should be handled by editors, journal staff or even machines, reducing the workload for reviewers.”
People from sub-Saharan Africa pay three weeks’ wages, on average, for a tourist visa to another country. Citizens in Western Europe pay less than an hour’s salary. It’s just one example of how some researchers face often-distressing immigration bureaucracy that others do not, write US-born sociologist Tiffany Joseph and systems biologist Mayank Chugh, who was born in the global south. They outline six steps that academics can take to rebalance the scales. (Nature | 8 min read)
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India could supercharge its impressive scientific achievements by encouraging businesses to contribute more to research-and-development spending, argues a Nature editorial. (5 min read)
In November, I shared with you our sorrow that senior careers editor Karen Kaplan — who commissioned many of the stories that I know to be Briefing readers’ favourites — had died, aged 64, of a rare head and neck cancer. Her dedication to showing the real-life diversity of scientists drove her to co-develop our award-winning ‘Where I Work’ series. That series is now on display as a beautiful large-scale photography exhibition, dedicated to Karen, near the Nature offices in King’s Cross, London. If you’re nearby, do drop by (it’s free). Otherwise, check out the virtual exhibition online.
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Carbon graphite grill
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