Website Search Results for: Food Security
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Date: 2014
Presents results from a study designed to determine if rural child care centers in western North Carolina meet recommendations for nutrition and physical activity. Also examines whether focusing on nutrition and physical activity is effective in improving the center environment, and if differences exist between school-affiliated and unaffiliated care centers.
...Food security and nutrition · Obesity and weight control · Physical activity · Schools · Statistics and data · Wellness...
Deadline: May 1, 2026
Grants to support Native American farmers and ranchers, with special emphasis on traditional foods, food sovereignty programs, lending, youth programming, and climate resilience.
...response · Farmers and farmworkers · Food security and nutrition · Occupational health and safety · Policy · Tribal communities...
Date: Jun 2014
Describes a point-of-purchase intervention conducted in 28 owner-operated restaurants in 26 rural counties in the Midwest. Features statistics with characteristics of adopters and non-adopters.
...06/2014 Food security and nutrition · Statistics and data · Wellness, health promotion, and disease prevention · Iowa...
Date: Mar 2014
Analyzes 22 stories from rural, local newspapers prompted by a press release regarding their local restaurant participating in the Rural Restaurant Healthy Options Program, a health promotion program, to determine the overall response rate, quality of coverage, and promotion provided by local media. The program was implemented in 28 restaurants and all restaurants were owner-operated, family style, sit-down restaurants in counties designated as rural.
...Practice, 15(2), 217-222 03/2014 Food security and nutrition · Wellness, health promotion, and disease prevention...
Date: 2014
Overview of StrongWomen Change Clubs (SWCC), an organization developed through an academic-community research partnership to initiate changes to improve nutrition and physical activity environments for women in rural communities in seven states across the country.
...Food security and nutrition · Obesity and weight control · Physical activity · Wellness, health promotion, and disease...
Date: Jan 2014
Describes the Creating Healthy, Active and Nurturing Growing-Up Environments (CHANGE) study. CHANGE is a community- and school-based intervention used to assess the quality of students' diets with the goal of preventing unhealthy weight gain among rural school-aged children.
...Food security and nutrition · Obesity and weight control · Wellness, health promotion, and disease prevention · California...
Deadline: Applications accepted on an ongoing basis
Grants to small businesses in the retail and wholesale food industry that are working to improve access to fresh, affordable, high-quality food in USDA designated food deserts in Michigan.
...online application is available on the program website . Capital funding · Food security and nutrition · Michigan...
Date: 2014
Examines whether dietary interventions have a greater response among people with a family history of colorectal cancer compared with the general population in rural Virginia. Data was collected by telephone surveys completed at a starting baseline and a one-month follow-up using a 28 question Fat and Fiber Behavior questionnaire. Includes family member and general population sample group data by demographics, education, eating habits, family social support, and other factors.
...Food security and nutrition · Health screening · Statistics and data · Wellness, health promotion, and disease prevention...
Date: 2014
Examines the socio-demographic characteristics of farmers market participants, the barriers and facilitators to farmers market shopping in southern rural communities, and the associations between farmers market use with fruit and vegetable consumption and body mass index (BMI). Seeks to assess the potential for using farmers markets to increase access to and the consumption of fruits and vegetables in rural areas.
...Food security and nutrition · Obesity and weight control · Statistics and data · The South · Wellness, health...
Date: Jan 2017
Examines the impact of social relationships on health behavior adoption and maintenance by interviewing midlife and older adults in rural Montana at increased risk of chronic disease. Addresses family and peer influences on diet, physical activity, and tobacco use.
...Elderly population · Food security and nutrition · Obesity and weight control · Physical activity · Tobacco use · Montana...