America’s Healthy Food Financing Initiative (HFFI) aims to build a more equitable food system that supports the health and economic vibrancy of all Americans. HFFI provides grants, loans, and technical assistance to improve access to healthy food in underserved areas, create and preserve quality...
To this end, the Healthy Gorge Initiative supports efforts to address a wide variety of issues including, food, housing, economic impact, equity, sense of community, mental/behavioral health, access to services, children/youth, oral health, physical activity, research/evaluation, clinic-based servic...
This legislation would provide $50 million annually in mandatory federal funding for the Healthy Food Financing Initiative which is a USDA program that offers loans and grants to incentivize grocery stores to establish locations in underserved communities. An easily accessible grocery store is a basic ...
Patient discussion about healthy food Q. what is more healthy, brown sugar or fruit sugar? A.fruit sugar Q. how do you treat being allergic to sort ofood but still have the option to enjoy the food you are allergic to? A.Severe allergic reaction (e.g. life threatening like anaphylaxis...
Introduction: The Reinvestment Fund, one of the nation's leading community development financial institutions (CDFI), has been working to improve fresh food access in underserved communities since 2004. The Pennsylvania Fresh Food Financing Initiative (FFFI), a nationally recognized success, helped deve...
For the present analysis, baseline was defined as the year of the first validated food-frequency questionnaire providing enough information to derive the dietary indices in each study—1984 for the NHS and 1986 for the HPFS. We excluded participants who reported cardiovascular disease (CVD), cancer...
. Although prior studies have examined the associations between neighborhood characteristics and cognitive health, little is known about whether local food environments, which are critical for individuals’ daily living, are associated with late-life cog
“fooddeserts.” 1 Healthyfoodfinancingaddressesthisissueandistheefforttobringfull- servicegrocerystoresorsupermarketstoruralandurbancommunitiestoprovideequitableaccessto healthyfoodssuchasfruitsandvegetables,low-fatdairy,wholegrains,seafood,andleanmeats.Ledby Pennsylvania’sFreshFoodFinancingInitiativethatbeganasa...
food frequency questionnaire used at the time as part of the Women's Health Initiative study. Additionally, "adherence to the 1990 dietary guidelines for Americans and the 1992 food guide pyramid, reflecting dietary recommendations at the time women entered the Women's Health Initiative, wa...
Perceptions of the food environment and access among predominantly black low-income residents of rural Louisiana communities. Int J Environ Res Public Health. 2020;17:5340. Article PubMed Central Google Scholar Holston D, Greene M. The LSU AgCenter Healthy Communities Initiative: Community-...