…finds no relationship between greater access to healthy food and improved diet or decreased BMIs among California youth. Keywords: junk food, urban health, healthy food, food supply, food access…
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…they experienced food insecurity, or challenges accessing and paying for food, within the previous 12 months. Other resources for journalists: The U.S. Department of Agriculture provides various reports on food…
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…USDA even offers a food desert locator organized by census tract. The prevalent theory is that limited access to healthful food may encourage poor eating habits, particularly among low-income families;…
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…U.N. Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) to measure the relationships between cropland requirements for food, and population, technology, and diet changes at the subcontinent level between 1961 and 2007. Key…
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…study, the researchers suggest that “the impact of food allergy in the United States may be greater than previously reported.” Tags: children, food, medicine, food allergy, prevalence, morbidity, disparities, epidemiology…
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…Contributions to Global Food Consumption: Implications for Nutrition Policy.” Keywords: tobacco, alcohol, processed food, sugar sweetened beverages, big food, health, regulation, public-private partnerships, industrial epidemics, health promotion, non-communicable diseases…
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…inmates reaped personal tales of food poisonings and parasites, and former staff members confirmed that the “food” served in the jail was awful and potentially dangerous. Prisoners prepare a meal…
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…in poor areas … more affluent and majority white neighborhoods have greater shares of fast-food chains within their retail food context.” Among the different types of food outlets (including supermarkets,…
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…Famine, which argued that starvation is due not to a lack of food, but simply to a lack of access to food. Sen further argued that famine mortality did not…
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…evidence that Food Stamps influences the health outcomes of the elderly recipients. Among recipients who are diabetics, they are 7% more likely to experience an inpatient hospitalization. Among non-whites, Food…
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