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When I think back to the beginning of my nutrition career, I was certain that by teaching people the proper internal temperature to cook a chicken or how to read a nutrition label, they would somehow be lifted out of their state of food insecurity.
Looking back, I can see how wrong I was. We are fed a myth that people with low incomes must lack skills or resiliency, but I quickly learned that the people who I
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