Background: Dietary fibre consists of non-digestible forms of carbohydrate, usually as
polysaccharides that originate from plant-based foods. Over recent decades, our diet within …

In December 2019, China reported a series of pneumonias of unknown cause in what would
evolve as the COVID-19 pandemic. The exact origin of the virus causing COVID-19, SARS …

Objective To explore the association between food insecurity and mental health outcomes
among low-income Americans during the COVID-19 pandemic. Methods We conducted a …

Previous research has demonstrated that the burden of household food insecurity is
disproportionately high among racial/ethnic minority groups, yet no peer-reviewed studies …

Background Many studies have examined the relationship between the food environment
and health-related outcomes, but fewer consider the integrity of measures used to assess …

Background Lack of access to healthy foods may explain why residents of low-income
neighborhoods and African Americans in the US have high rates of obesity. The findings on …

Rapid economic growth and urbanization have brought notable changes in China. This
trend had dramatic impacts to food industry and diet-related behaviors, which leads to …

The COVID-19 pandemic significantly increased food insecurity despite emergency
legislation that put more resources into food assistance programs, increased unemployment …

Prior to the COVID-19 pandemic, an estimated 14% of families with children (13 million
children) were food insecure, meaning they had limited or uncertain access to enough food …

To respond to the high prevalence of obesity and its associated health consequences,
recent food research and policy have focused on neighborhood food environments …