Addressing food insecurity while promoting healthy body weights among children is a major public health challenge. Our objective is to examine longitudinal associations between food insecurity and obesity in U.S. children aged 1 to 19 years. Sources for this research include PubMed, CINAHL, and Scopus databases (January 2000 to February 2022). We included English language More
Keywords: Food insecurity
Date: June 2022
Resource Type: Journal Article
Focus Areas: Diet Quality & Healthy Weight Food Access
Food insecurity is associated with increased risk of chronic disease and poor dietary intake. The United States charitable food system, a complex network of food banks, pantries and congregate meal sites, provides food for millions of low-income households each year. Food banks and pantries play a critical role in supporting food security and are an More
Keywords: Food insecurity, Nutrition standards
Date: March 2022
Resource Type: Journal Article
Focus Areas: Diet Quality & Healthy Weight Food Access
The overall goal of this study is to develop a Healthy Charitable Foods Index that can be used by food banks to translate the pounds by category values into a value that corresponds meaningfully to the USDA’s Healthy Eating Index (HEI) scores. The subrecipient will compare a set of foods in the charitable food system More
Keywords: Food insecurity, Nutrition standards
Date: June 2021
Resource Type: Commissioned Research Project Summary
Focus Areas: Diet Quality & Healthy Weight Food Access
Households with children ages 6 and younger are at a particularly high risk of food insecurity (14.3% food insecure). These are also the households in which new pregnancies are most likely to occur. The Special Supplemental Program for Women, Infants, and Children (WIC) is designed to improve the health of low-income pregnant and post-partum women, More
Date: February 2020
Resource Type: Grant Summary
Focus Areas: Diet Quality & Healthy Weight Food Access Nutrition Policy & Programs
This study aimed to assess the relative impact of the home food environment on children’s diet after the introduction of a new supermarket in a food desert. This study builds upon a natural experiment to longitudinally examine the food-purchasing behaviors and diets among a randomly selected population of households in two major Pittsburgh food desert More
Date: March 2017
Resource Type: Journal Article
Focus Areas: Diet Quality & Healthy Weight Food Access
This project will examine the linkages between tribal government food policies and tribal community health, with a focus on the impact of food policy on obesity prevention among children and adolescents and the promotion of healthy eating. This project aims to study and report on three primary issues: 1) tribal communities’ use of food sovereignty More
Date: February 2016
Resource Type: Grant Summary
Focus Areas: Diet Quality & Healthy Weight Food Access Nutrition Policy & Programs
This review summarizes growing evidence of disparities in the social and physical environments of U.S. children and adolescents that likely contribute to increased risk for obesity and poor nutrition. The review examines literature on disparities in nutrition and healthy food access in school, child-care, and residential neighborhood environments, food production and marketing practices, and cultural More
Date: January 2015
Resource Type: Journal Article
Focus Areas: Diet Quality & Healthy Weight Early Childhood Food Access Food Marketing Nutrition Policy & Programs School & After School
This study will examine the impact of the opening of a new grocery store in a lower-income, multi-ethnic neighborhood in San Francisco. This research team has already collected two sets of baseline data from the neighborhood prior to the opening of the grocery store. This new project will allow for a final wave of endpoint More
Keywords: Community setting, Food outlet, Fruits and vegetables, Grocery store, Neighborhood, Urban
Date: February 2012
Resource Type: Grant Summary
Focus Areas: Diet Quality & Healthy Weight Food Access Food Retail
The Journal of Hunger and Environmental Nutrition produced a special journal issue highlighting papers and discussions from the April 2009 conference, “Food Systems and Public Health: Linkages to Achieve Healthier Diets and Healthier Communities.” The conference convened more than 100 leading researchers and practitioners nationwide from the health, nutrition, obesity and health policy arenas, as More
Date: December 2009
Resource Type: Special Journal Issue
Focus Areas: Diet Quality & Healthy Weight Food Access Nutrition Policy & Programs Pricing & Economics
This report identifies existing surveillance systems and databases containing information that not only tracks the current state of the childhood obesity problem, but that can also provide evidence to help address it.
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Date: May 2008
Resource Type: Tools & Measures
Focus Areas: Diet Quality & Healthy Weight Food Access Healthy Communities