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Heart disease, type 2 diabetes, high blood pressure and obesity were more common and linked to reduced access to healthy foods among people who live in neighborhoods previously subjected to redlining, according to a preliminary study to be presented at the American Heart Association's Scientific Se...
These burdens comprise immediate health hazards as well as subtle inequities, such as limited access to healthy foods. We reviewed the literature on neighborhood disparities in access to fast-food outlets and convenience stores. Low-income neighborhoods offered greater access to food sources that ...
The Healthy Foods Card offers health plans an innovative way to address food insecurity, improve access to healthy foods and enhance supplemental benefits.
Take-home message: "For low-income patients, access to healthy food choices is limited, so their diet tends to consist of processed and fast foods heavily enriched with highly-absorbable phosphorus additives," said Gutierrez. "The amount of phosphorus additives in food is not always listed, so...
Using this lens, it is possible to explore the role of marketing in improving well-being (e.g., by studying factors that can be used to increase fruit or vegetable intake, attenuating factors that hinder healthy food consumption, or examining the symbolic meanings behind meals). We solicited ...
Increasing public and political attention to the nation's obesity crisis has provided a window of opportunity for increasing access to healthy foods in underserved low-income communities. PolicyLink, a national non-profit research and action institute working to advance social and economic equity, has...
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PRACTICE APPLICATIONS Topics of Professional Interest From Nutrition to Public Policy: Improving Healthy Food Access by Enhancing Farm-to-Table Legislation in Louisiana I NCREASING ACCESS TO HEALTHY foods is one of many strategies that have been recommended by national authorities as a way to improve...
A general definition of household food insecurity is given by Anderson [13] and refers to having a limited or uncertain availability of nutritionally adequate and safe food, or to having to acquire foods in socially unacceptable ways. This is a measure of purchasing power, and we posit that ...