Nutritional Deficiencies among Youth Experiencing Homelessness
PI, Dr. Irene Hatsu, OSU, Human Nutrition – An important challenge of homelessness is access to food, which mediates nutritional and other health outcomes. Optimal nutrition is fundamental to the biological, biochemical and physiological functioning of the human body. As such, nutritional vulnerabilities can cause disruptions in such processes, contributing to the initiation and/or exacerbation of disease conditions. In fact, poor diet quality and nutrient consumption pattern