Few Pennsylvanians have probably ever heard of the federally funded Commodity Supplemental Food Program (CSFP). It’s one of those programs you don’t really know about until you need it. But in Pennsylvania, 36,200 rely on it and even more need it, as there are more 3,800 seniors on the waiting list at any given time. CSFP leverages government buying power to provide life-sustaining meal deliveries to older Pennsylvanians --- 100 percent of the participants are low-income seni

The Commodity Supplemental Food Program (CSFP) is a critical commodity program that leverages government buying power to provide nutritious food packages to more than 700,000 low-income seniors each month nationally --- including more than 40,000 seniors spread across every county in Pennsylvania. CSFP, largely a collaboration between states, the federal government and private non-profits, works to improve the health of low-income elderly individuals at least 60 years of age

Poor nutrition can impede seniors’ ability to effectively recover from illnesses, limit intake of essential vitamins, reduce efficacy of prescription drugs and exacerbate problems from pre-existing health conditions. In an effort to empower older adults to make healthy food choices, nutrition scientists at Tufts University unveiled a new nutrition guide on Monday. The Jean Mayer U. S. Department of Agriculture Human Nutrition Research Center on Aging led the project with supp

The news keeps getting worse on the anti-hunger front. Demand for a key anti-hunger program that serves low-income and homebound senior citizens continues to grow, with the number of individuals awaiting benefits now more than double what it was at this time last year, new figures show. At the end of October, 3,590 Pennsylvanians were on the waiting list for the federal Commodity Supplemental Food Program (CSFP), which provides life-sustaining meal deliveries and nutrition se