Therefore, the purpose of this is paper is to encourage its audience to rethink how we can implement policies to address the issue of unhealthy dietary patterns by reducing or eliminating food deserts. Specifically, we explore the effect of implementing evidence‐based policies such as nutrition ...
says that addressing food deserts, a product of structural racism, neighborhood redlining (the withholding of services from certain communities) and disinvestment, is not as simple as building a supermarket.
6. Impact on Food Deserts Many impoverished urban and rural residents lack access to fresh, nutritious foods. Those neighborhoods tend to lack large supermarkets nearby (within a mile in urban areas or within 10 miles in rural ones) with full, affordable assortments of products. More common in...
Invasive non-native plants are changing ecosystems and native biodiversity, and modifying soil microbial feedback. The invasive species Prosopis juliflora (Sw.) D.C. (mesquite) has been introduced into several ecosystems, especially in tropical and subtr
By some 50,000 years ago, however, humans had learned to use fire and to cook their food; they had developed complex tools, weapons, and language and created art. On local scales, these modern humans were very much ecosystem engineers. Sometimes their enhanced abilities to make a living out...
- 《International Journal of Behavioral Nutrition & Physical Activity》 被引量: 206发表: 2006年 Measuring food deserts in New York City's low-income neighborhoods There has been growing interest in the environmental factors that contribute to poor health outcomes, particularly in areas where health ...
This chapter uses case studies on market reform and private trade in Eastern and Southern Africa, India, MENA and transaction costs and agricultural productivity in Madagascar to determine the impact on measures of household welfare. We also examine the presence of food deserts in the US. This ...
"Unfortunately, the availability and affordability of healthy food sources does not easily allow people to follow the DASH diet. Clinicians should consider whether their patients live in food deserts or places with limited walkability. Health counseling should include addressing these specific challenges ...
Food insecurity frequently correlates with broader economic conditions. For example, high levels of food insecurity could be an early warning sign of a looming recession. By keeping an eye on this metric, investors can be better equipped to navigate market downturns or capitalize on emerging opportun...
D Block,J Kouba - 《Public Health Nutrition》 被引量: 462发表: 2006年 The role of local food availability in explaining obesity risk among young school-aged children In recent years, research and public policy attention has increasingly focused on understanding whether modifiable aspects of the ...