Food insecurity and health outcomes

C Gundersen, JP Ziliak - Health affairs, 2015 - healthaffairs.org
Almost fifty million people are food insecure in the United States, which makes food
insecurity one of the nation's leading health and nutrition issues. We examine recent …

Exercise and older adults

JC Mora, WM Valencia - Clinics in geriatric medicine, 2018 - geriatric.theclinics.com
The current prevalence of inactivity in older adults is unacceptable, and represents a public
health problem likely to grow in concurrence with an increasing and aging populations. A …

Household food security in the United States in 2018

A Coleman-Jensen, MP Rabbitt, CA Gregory, A Singh - 2019 - ageconsearch.umn.edu
An estimated 88.9 percent of US households were food secure throughout the entire year in
2018, with access at all times to enough food for an active, healthy life for all household …

Student hunger on campus: Food insecurity among college students and implications for academic institutions

DC Payne-Sturges, A Tjaden… - American Journal of …, 2018 - journals.sagepub.com
Purpose: To estimate the prevalence of food insecurity among students at a large mid-
Atlantic publicly funded university; examine the association between food insecurity …

Household food security in the United States in 2016

A Coleman-Jensen, MP Rabbitt, CA Gregory, A Singh - 2017 - ageconsearch.umn.edu
An estimated 87.7 percent of American households were food secure throughout the entire
year in 2016, meaning they had access at all times to enough food for an active, healthy life …

Food insecurity is associated with poorer mental health and sleep outcomes in young adults

JM Nagata, K Palar, HC Gooding, AK Garber… - Journal of Adolescent …, 2019 - Elsevier
Purpose The aim of the study was to determine the association between food insecurity,
mental health, and sleep outcomes among young adults. Young adulthood represents an …

Food insecurity, psychosocial health and academic performance among college and university students in Georgia, USA

IG Raskind, R Haardörfer, CJ Berg - Public health nutrition, 2019 - cambridge.org
ObjectiveTo examine whether psychosocial health mediates the association between food
insecurity and grade point average (GPA) among college and university students …

Food insecurity and adult overweight/obesity: gender and race/ethnic disparities

DC Hernandez, LM Reesor, R Murillo - Appetite, 2017 - Elsevier
The majority of the food insecurity-obesity research has indicated a positive association
among women, especially minority women. Less research has been conducted on men, and …

Food insecurity and eating disorder pathology

CB Becker, K Middlemass, B Taylor… - … Journal of eating …, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
Objective The primary aim of this study was to investigate eating disorder (ED) pathology in
those living with food insecurity. A secondary aim was to investigate whether any‐reason …

Brief assessment of food insecurity accurately identifies high-risk US adults

C Gundersen, EE Engelhard, AS Crumbaugh… - Public health …, 2017 - cambridge.org
ObjectiveTo facilitate the introduction of food insecurity screening into clinical settings, we
examined the test performance of two-item screening questions for food insecurity against …