The relationship between food insecurity, dietary patterns, and obesity

ME Morales, SA Berkowitz - Current nutrition reports, 2016 - Springer
Food insecurity is a major public health concern and refers to the limited or uncertain ability
to acquire nutritious food in a safe and socially acceptable manner. Food insecurity has …

Dietary inequalities: what is the evidence for the effect of the neighbourhood food environment?

C Black, G Moon, J Baird - Health & place, 2014 - Elsevier
This review summarises the evidence for inequalities in community and consumer nutrition
environments from ten previous review articles, and also assesses the evidence for the …

The structural roots of food insecurity: How racism is a fundamental cause of food insecurity

S Bowen, S Elliott, A Hardison‐Moody - Sociology Compass, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Rates of food insecurity skyrocketed during the COVID‐19 pandemic, doubling overall and
tripling among households with children. Even before the pandemic, the rate of food …

Impact of policy and built environment changes on obesity‐related outcomes: a systematic review of naturally occurring experiments

SL Mayne, AH Auchincloss, YL Michael - Obesity reviews, 2015 - Wiley Online Library
Policies and changes to the built environment are promising targets for obesity prevention
efforts and can be evaluated as 'natural'‐or 'quasi'‐experiments. This systematic review …

The impact of interventions in the global land and agri‐food sectors on Nature's Contributions to People and the UN Sustainable Development Goals

P McElwee, K Calvin, D Campbell… - Global Change …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Interlocked challenges of climate change, biodiversity loss, and land degradation require
transformative interventions in the land management and food production sectors to reduce …

A systematic review of the effect of retail food environment interventions on diet and health with a focus on the enabling role of public policies

CL Mah, G Luongo, R Hasdell, NGA Taylor… - Current Nutrition …, 2019 - Springer
Abstract Purpose of Review Update the state of evidence on the effectiveness of retail food
environment interventions in influencing diet and explore the underlying role of public policy …

Increasing access to healthful foods: a qualitative study with residents of low-income communities

A Evans, K Banks, R Jennings, E Nehme… - International Journal of …, 2015 - Springer
Background Inadequate access to healthful foods has been identified as a significant barrier
to healthful dietary behaviors among individuals who live in low-income communities. The …

Beyond the supermarket solution: Linking food deserts, neighborhood context, and everyday mobility

J Shannon - Annals of the American Association of Geographers, 2016 - Taylor & Francis
Most research on urban food deserts has employed spatial measures of accessibility,
recording distances to various food stores from place of residence. Despite the popularity of …

Determinants of real-life behavioural interventions to stimulate more plant-based and less animal-based diets: A systematic review

D Taufik, MCD Verain, EP Bouwman… - Trends in Food Science & …, 2019 - Elsevier
Background Facilitating a transition to more plant-based and less animal-based diets would
strongly alleviate the environmental impact of food, while plant-based diets can also …

Food environments and dietary intakes among adults: does the type of spatial exposure measurement matter? A systematic review

A Bivoltsis, E Cervigni, G Trapp, M Knuiman… - International journal of …, 2018 - Springer
Background The relationships between food environments and dietary intake have been
assessed via a range of methodologically diverse measures of spatial exposure to food …