Body mass index, Body satisfaction, Ethnicity, Food insecurity, RaceBackgroundFood insecurity affects 13 million children in the United States. Body dissatisfaction is also prevalent, affecting up to 46% of children. Both food insecurity and body dissatisfaction are associated with poor health outcomes...
Household food insecurity affected 12.5% of households with children in 2021. In some of these food-insecure households only adults were food insecure, while in other households, children also experienced food insecurity. In 6.3% of households with children, only adults were food insecure. ...
Food insecurity may increase the odds of obesity in children. We investigated the association between food insecurity and obesity among low-income, Hispanic,... MA Papas,JC Trabulsi,A Dahl,... - 《Journal of Immigrant & Minority Health》 被引量: 5发表: 2016年 Household Food Insecurity May ...
"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...
Both household food insecurity and childhood overweight are serious public health problems that appear to be paradoxically correlated. This study examines the relationship between overweight and household food insecurity with/without hunger in low-income children participating in the Special Supplemental Nutrit...
"Our study shows that children are not only aware that their family is food insecurity, but they're also psychologically impacted by it," said Cindy Leung, lead researcher in the study. "Food is more than just the calories. There's so much more to food than when you don't have enough...
“Childhood Food Neglect”. That is, they do not have access to fresh, affordable, culturally appropriate healthy food that they can get in a dignified way (1). Devastatingly, more than 11 million children in America live in “food insecure” homes, a number which is projected to increase ...
than 35 million people in the U.S. struggled with hunger, according to Feeding America. But now, withmillions of Americans unemployedand asecond relief check uncertain, the non-profit estimates that more than 50 million people may experience food insecurity in 2020, including 17 million childre...
Millions of children are going without extra food on the table this summer, after 13 states said no to joining a federal program that helps families in need buy groceries.
The norm has been for children's experience of food insecurity to be examined by parental reports. Researchers have challenged the notion that parental reports of childhood food insecurity are the most accurate and have begun to explore children's own experiences of food insecurity, since the liter...