Increasingly, studies are focusing on the role the local food environment plays in residents'
ability to purchase affordable, healthy and nutritious foods. In a food desert, an area devoid …

Objective Review peer-reviewed interventions designed to reduce obesity and improve
obesogenic behaviors, including physical activity, diet, and screen time, at child care …

Background. Grocery stores and community settings are important and promising venues for
environmental, policy, and pricing initiatives to increase fruit and vegetable intake. This …

As a strategy for early childhood obesity prevention, a variety of dietary behavior and
physical activity policies and guidelines published by leading health agencies and early …

Children attending centre based childcare services consume as much as two thirds of their
daily dietary requirements while in care. However, such services often fail to provide foods …

Australian efforts to address food insecurity are delivered by a charitable food system (CFS)
which fails to meet demand. The scope and nature of the CFS is unknown. This study audits …

ObjectiveTo determine the impact of an implementation intervention designed to introduce
policies and practices supportive of healthy eating in centre-based child-care services …

ObjectiveEarly childhood settings are promising avenues to intervene to improve children's
nutrition. Previous research has shown that a nutrition award scheme, Start Right–Eat Right …

The current preoccupation with body weight in western cultures is arguably unprecedented.
The obesity crisis has engaged not only health communities, but numerous other public and …

Abstract This Productivity Commission staff working paper (by Jacqueline Crowle and Erin
Turner) was released in October 2010. Being overweight or obese as a child has …