CHICAGO, Feb. 28 (Xinhua) -- A study led by University of Michigan researchers shows that children know more about food insecurity, the state of being without reliable access to a sufficient quantity of affordable, nutritious food, than their parents give them credit for. The researchers talked...
the effect of food insecurity on children's health and quality of life. Therefore, the purpose of this research was to explore children's perceptions of household food insecurity and use their descriptions of food insecurity to define components of the experience of food insecurity for children. ...
The shame that children experience associated with food insecurity, and actions that they take to alleviate it, is not known. We aimed to examine the associations among food insecurity in children, their management strategies to alleviate it, and the shame arising when their lack of food is ...
"Food security inchildrenmeans having enough food for growth and development," says Banerji, who works at St. Joseph's Health Center. "Severefood insecurity, which is happening in Indigenous communities across the country, means children are going full days or more without food." Banerji recently...
Food Insecurity and Risk of Poor Health Among US-Born Children of Immigrants We investigated the risk of household food insecurity and reported fair or poor health among very young children who were US citizens and whose mothers wer... M Chilton,MM Black,C Berkowitz,... - 《American Journal...
An understanding of the experience of food insecurity by children is essential for better measurement and assessment of its effect on children's nutritional, physical, and mental health. Our qualitative study explored children's perceptions of household food insecurity to identify these perceptions and ...
poverty and food insecurity and the prevalence of obesity in children; possible explanations for the overlap between poverty, household food insecurity and obesity in children; social, economic and public health policies to address childhood poverty and household food insecurity - can they have an impa...
Children living in households with food insecurity have double the risk of low self-esteem compared with their peers living in homes that always have good access to nutritious food, according to joint research by the University of Alberta and Edith Cowan University in Australia. ...
493 children ages 1 month to 5 years and analyzed by sex and age groups using logistic regression to model the odds of being overweight (weight for length or body mass index [calculated as kg/m 2] for age ≥95th percentile) given household food insecurity status, controlling for race/...
(SBP) may effectively address the needs of many families who experience food insecurity and increase access to healthy options, according to a new policy brief released by Children's HealthWatch, a nonpartisan network of pediatricians and public health researchers headquartered at Boston Medical Center...