MURFREESBORO — An
upcoming lecture at MTSU will explore how immigrants’ diets change after
arriving in the United States.
University of Minnesota professor Chery F. Smith will speak
on “Immigration to America: How Environmental Change Impacts Dietary Intake and
Body Mass Index Status” at 6 p.m. Monday, April 3, in the McWherter Learning
Resources Center Auditorium.
Smith will address food insecurity and how immigrants adapt
to their new homeland through dietary acculturation. A registered dietician,
Smith is a published researcher in the areas of food anthropology, food deserts
and how food insecurity influences the nutritional status, dietary behavior and
health of selected populations.
This lecture is sponsored by the MTSU College of Behavioral
and Health Sciences’ Department of Human Sciences and is free and open to the
public. For more information, contact the department at 615-898-2884.
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