Abstract Purpose of Review This review examines the current evidence about the ways in
which food insecurity relates to obesity in children and adolescents, examining diet and diet …

Background Diet-related environmental and policy interventions are being advocated at a
population level because individual change is more likely to be facilitated and sustained if …

Food insecurity has been associated with diverse developmental consequences for US
children primarily from cross-sectional studies. We used longitudinal data to investigate how …

In bioethics, discussions of justice have tended to focus on questions of fairness in access to
health care: is there a right to medical treatment, and how should priorities be set when …

In the current environment of deepening class and income inequality, it is essential to
understand the socio-economic conditions that shape the health of individuals and …

Background: Sobal and Stunkard's review (1989) of 34 studies from developed countries
published after 1941, found inconsistent relationships between socioeconomic status (SES) …

During the past decade, rates of food insecurity and obesity have risen, and an association
has been made between these two seemingly paradoxical states. Although this relationship …

The purposes of this study were to estimate the prevalence of household food insufficiency
in Canada, to identify sociodemographic characteristics of households most likely to report …

CONTEXT: Food insecurity disproportionately affects US demographic groups of children
and adult family members at the highest risk for obesity and may lead to weight gain through …

Objective To examine the effects of hunger, an extreme manifestation of food insecurity, on
subsequent health outcomes using data from the Canadian National Longitudinal Survey of …