Website Search Results for: Food Security
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Date: Jan 2018
Analyzes data from the BreakFAST study to examine if changing school breakfast policies and environments impacts students' beliefs on the barriers and benefits of eating breakfast in rural high schools in Minnesota.
...Health, 88(1), 3-8 01/2018 Children and youth · Food security and nutrition · Schools · Minnesota...
Date: Mar 2018
Examines the use of a dietary screening tool (DST) utilizing surveys, anthropometry, and dietary recalls to assess nutritional risk in rural older adults living in Appalachia. Includes statistics on patient characteristics and medical history by risk category.
...03/2018 Appalachia · Food security and nutrition · Statistics and data · Wellness, health promotion, and disease prevention...
Date: Feb 2020
Presents a study examining the role of diet and gut microbiota in rates of colorectal cancer. Compares the diets of Alaska Natives, who have the highest rates of colorectal cancer in the world, with the diets of rural Africans, who have some of the lowest.
...Cancer · Food security and nutrition · Health disparities · Public health · Statistics and data · Tribal communities · Alaska...
Date: 2019
Describes the process of designing and operating the Southwest New Mexico Food Hub, a program dedicated to increasing local food production, supporting local food systems, and ensuring food distribution to those in need. Includes discussion of logistics, planning, needs assessment, and the process of working with growers and food pantries. Highlights unique challenges experienced in frontier communities.
...development · Farmers and farmworkers · Food security and nutrition · Frontier and remote areas · Funding · New Mexico...
Date: 2020
Examines the changing food landscape of 11 rural counties in Indiana known as the Uplands. Reports on listening sessions that took place in 2019 and summarizes community discussions about food systems and food values. Includes information on food expenditures, farming and land use, and food system profiles of Uplands counties.
...Center for Rural Engagement, Sustainable Food Systems Science Food security and nutrition · Statistics and data · Indiana...
Date: Apr 2020
Examines associations between availability of in-home piped water service and consumption of sugar-sweetened beverages (SSBs) in rural Alaska using data from 2013 and 2015. Assesses health outcomes such as obesity and self-reported poor health as related to SSBs. Includes statistics broken down by age, sex, household income, and education level.
...04/2020 Food security and nutrition · Infrastructure · Obesity and weight control · Population health · Tribal communities · Alaska...
Date: 2020
Details the formation of a childhood obesogenic environment index (COEI), which was used to identify rural, urban, and other geographic differences in environmental factors associated with obesity. Variables used to calculate COEI scores include availability of fast-food restaurants, farmers markets, grocery stores, and other related facilities; access to exercise opportunities; violent crime; walkability; and more. Includes county-level data on COEI scores across the U.S.
...Food security and nutrition · Obesity and weight control · Physical activity · Rural-urban differences · Statistics and data...
Date: Jan 2020
Results of a study measuring the sugar-sweetened beverage intake of 68,896 adults, using information from the Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System. Features demographic statistics with breakdowns by frequency of intake, state, and metropolitan or nonmetropolitan location.
...Food security and nutrition · Rural-urban differences · Statistics and data · Alaska · Arizona · Arkansas · Delaware · Hawaii...
Date: Jan 2019
Highlights the efforts of a community project in Kentucky to increase access to healthy foods and opportunities to be physically active. Details the project's work with grocery store managers to increase the availability of healthy food and with community members to develop and improve physical activity resources.
...engagement and volunteerism · Food security and nutrition · Physical activity · Public health · Statistics and data · Kentucky...
Date: May 2020
Examines the effectiveness of the initial phase of the Faith, Activity, and Nutrition (FAN) program, an evidence-based program designed to help churches develop policy, methods, and environmental change to support physical activity and health eating within their congregation. Study was implemented in rural, medically underserved Fairfield County, South Carolina with 59 churches participating. Members were predominantly Black/African American and affiliated with the Baptist denomination.
...Food security and nutrition · Physical activity · Public health · Statistics and data · Wellness, health promotion, and disease...