Download or read book The Impact of Parents Perceptions of the Food Quality Within Their Neighborhood and Most Frequented Food Stores and the Distance to Food Stores on Children s Diet Quality written by Katharine Olivia Lutz and published by . This book was released on 2013 with total page 35 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Childhood obesity has reached epidemic proportions in the United States, which could signal an unprecedented shift in lifespan, with the current generation living a short life than their parents. Although there are a variety of contributing factors, some of the largest gains in childhood obesity reduction could come from examining the relationship between the neighborhood food environment and children's diet quality (DQ). While many studies have investigated the influence of distance to supermarkets on adults' DQ, few have examined the effects on young children. Further, studies have rarely considered parents' perceptions of local food quality as a predictor of children's DQ, nor have studies used the parents' frequented food store (FFS) as the measure of exposure. Finally, there remains a need to assess if parents travel farther for food shopping when their perceptions of neighborhood food quality differ from their perceptions of food quality at their FFS, because this additional travel burden may be prohibitive to healthy food procurement. Participants were 686 parent-child pairs from the Neighborhood Impact on Kids (NIK) Study. Parents' perceptions of neighborhood and FFS quality were assessed via survey. Children's DQ was measured as adherence to the Dietary Approaches to Stop Hypertension (DASH) eating plan's overall and fruit and vegetable (F&V) recommendations through three, random 24-hour dietary recalls. FFSs were identified via survey and street network distances from home to the store were calculated via GIS. Linear regression analyses assessed the associations between parents' perceptions and child DQ as well as distance to the FFS and child DQ. A paired t-test determined if parents held discordant views about food quality between their neighborhood and FFS, and Spearman rank correlation coefficients assessed the association between discordance and food shopping distance. No statistically significant associations were found between parents' perceptions of FFS quality and children's overall DASH score in the adjusted analyses; however, the F&V component DASH score remained significant (p=.05). The adjusted models indicated that increasing distance to the parents' FFS improved children's overall and F&V component DASH scores. Parents' views of food quality within their neighborhood versus FFS differed, with FFSs receiving more positive assessments. Discordant views were weakly and significantly associated with distance to the FFS (r=-0.1, p=.01). Parents' perceptions of the food quality at their FFS are only weakly associated with children's DQ. This may be due to the fact that many factors impact food choice decision-making. The finding that children's DQ improved with increasing distance to the FFS suggested that parents valued healthfulness and were willing to travel farther to procure healthy, affordable food. Additionally, restricting the focus to just the relationship between the home and the FFS may have obscured the true nature of the food environment-diet quality relationship, and future studies should include other common destinations in one's daily activity space (e.g. work or school).
Download or read book Access to Affordable and Nutritious Food Measuring and Understanding Food Deserts and Their Consequences written by Michele Ver Ploeg and published by DIANE Publishing. This book was released on 2010-02 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Food, Conservation, and Energy Act of 2008 directed the U.S. Dept. of Agr. to conduct a 1-year study to assess the extent of areas with limited access to affordable and nutritious food, identify characteristics and causes of such areas, consider how limited access affects local populations, and outline recommend. to address the problem. This report presents the findings of the study, which include results from two conferences of national and internat. authorities on food deserts and a set of research studies. It also includes reviews of existing literature, a national-level assessment of access to large grocery stores and supermarkets, analysis of the economic and public health effects of limited access, and a discussion of existing policy interventions. Illus.
Download or read book Parents Perceived and Objective Food Environment and the Association with Their Child s Health and Nutrition written by Emily Kee and published by . This book was released on 2016 with total page 120 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The built food environment, defined as a set of factors including availability of fresh foods, proximity of food, prices of food, availability of assistance, and community characteristics that interact to influence food choices and diet, has been found to have an impact on health and nutrition. Therefore, this study examined the effect of neighborhood food environment on child health and nutrition. Specifically, the parents' perceptions of their food environments along with the objective food environment were analyzed in addition to the diet intake and the body mass index of children of ages two to five. 83 parents in an urban and suburban region of Illinois, from generally low socioeconomic status backgrounds, were surveyed on their perceptions of their food environment using Freedman's Perception of Food Environment Scales and were asked to report the last four weeks of their child's dietary intake by the Harvard Service Food Frequency Questionnaire. Residential addresses were coded to census tracts and scored by the modified Retail Food Environment Index. Pearson correlations and ANOVA were used to test the association between neighborhood food environment measures (perceived and mRFEI) and child's BMI and dietary intake. Results showed that improved parental perceptions of food environment were significantly correlated with increased vegetable intake among the children (r(78)=.322, p=.004) and decreased sweetened beverage intake (r(83)=-.226, p=.040). In addition, improved food environment was associated with decreased grain, dairy, salty snack, and meat consumption. Objective and perceived food environments were weakly associated, if at all, and perceptions of the food environment seemed to have a stronger impact on the children's dietary intake than the objective food environment, suggesting that improvements in awareness of food availability, education, and promotion of fresh and healthy foods may have an impact on improving children's dietary intake.
Download or read book Food Literacy written by Helen Vidgen and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-04-14 with total page 263 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Globally, the food system and the relationship of the individual to that system, continues to change and grow in complexity. Eating is an everyday event that is part of everyone’s lives. There are many commentaries on the nature of these changes to what, where and how we eat and their socio-cultural, environmental, educational, economic and health consequences. Among this discussion, the term "food literacy" has emerged to acknowledge the broad role food and eating play in our lives and the empowerment that comes from meeting food needs well. In this book, contributors from Australia, China, United Kingdom and North America provide a review of international research on food literacy and how this can be applied in schools, health care settings and public education and communication at the individual, group and population level. These varying perspectives will give the reader an introduction to this emerging concept. The book gathers current insights and provides a platform for discussion to further understanding and application in this field. It stimulates the reader to conceptualise what food literacy means to their practice and to critically review its potential contribution to a range of outcomes.
Download or read book Local Food Systems Concepts Impacts and Issues written by Steve Martinez and published by DIANE Publishing. This book was released on 2010-11 with total page 87 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This comprehensive overview of local food systems explores alternative definitions of local food, estimates market size and reach, describes the characteristics of local consumers and producers, and examines early indications of the economic and health impacts of local food systems. Defining ¿local¿ based on marketing arrangements, such as farmers selling directly to consumers at regional farmers¿ markets or to schools, is well recognized. Statistics suggest that local food markets account for a small, but growing, share of U.S. agricultural production. For smaller farms, direct marketing to consumers accounts for a higher percentage of their sales than for larger farms. Charts and tables.
Download or read book How Food Away from Home Affects Children s Diet Quality written by Lisa Mancino and published by DIANE Publishing. This book was released on 2010 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a print on demand edition of a hard to find publication. This study includes estimates of how each child¿s consumption of food away from home, food from school, and caloric sweetened beverages affects that child¿s diet quality and calorie consumption. Compared with meals and snacks prepared at home, food prepared away from home increases caloric intake of children, esp. older children. Each food-away-from-home meal adds 108 more calories to daily total intake among children ages 13-18 than a snack or meal from home. Both food away from home and all food from school also lower the daily diet quality of older children. Among younger children, the effect of food from school on caloric intake and diet quality does not differ significantly from that of food from home. Charts and tables.
Download or read book How Well Do Parents Assess Their Children s Diet written by Jessica Eliason and published by . This book was released on 2019 with total page 152 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Objective: Parents play a critical role in their child's diets, yet there is lack of research in the US comparing parental perception of their child's diet with quantitatively assessed diet quality. We examined the association between parent perception of their child's overall diet and the child's diet quality, as measured by frequency of consumption of key food categories. Methods: Secondary analysis was conducted using data from two independent cross- sectional panels of surveys with parents of a 3-18 year old child. Data collection took place in 2009-2010 and 2014, the random sample was drawn from low-income cities. Well-established survey questions assessed parental perception of their child's diet and frequency of consumption of fruits, vegetables, sugar-sweetened beverages (SSB), fast food and unhealthy snacks. Diet quality scores were calculated for each child, with higher scores reflective of healthier diets (max score= 40). Ordered logistic regressions examined associations between parental perception and consumption of food categories. Multinomial logistic regressions examined associations between levels of concordance in parent perception and diet scores by demographic sub-groups. Results: Almost half of children were non-Hispanic black (46%) and 40% were Hispanic. Overall 52% of parents strongly agreed, 33% somewhat agreed,10% somewhat disagreed, and 4% strongly disagreed that their child eats a healthy diet. The mean diet quality score for the sample was 20.58 ± 6.7. Children from our sample with the unhealthiest diet had a mean frequency of fruit intake = 0.8 times/day and SSBs = 2.2 times/day. Children with the healthiest diet had a mean consumption of fruit=1.7/day an SSBs= 0.4/day. Parental perception of their child's diet was significantly higher when their child consumed more fruit (p
Download or read book The African Food Environments written by Amos Laar and published by Frontiers Media SA. This book was released on 2023-09-05 with total page 109 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In many respects, the continent of Africa is in transition. Prominent among them – currently – is the nutrition transition. One consequence of the nutrition transition is the increase in prevalence of nutrition-related non-communicable diseases (NCDs) such as obesity, type 2 diabetes, cardiovascular diseases, and certain cancers. Although NCDs are a global public health problem, the rate of increase in NCDs morbidity and mortality in some African countries is staggering. This surge has been linked to modifiable environmental factors – factors that facilitate the consumption of obesogenic (energy-dense nutrient-poor foods), rather than unrefined cereals, fruits, and vegetables. It has long been recognized that the physical and social environments - in which people live, work, and eat are critical determinants of their health. More recently, there has been a greater focus on the food environment as a key determinant of health. Available evidence shows that unhealthy food environments drive unhealthy diets; and unhealthy diet is one of four main risk factors for NCDs.
Download or read book The Relationship of Parents Perceptions of Their Health and Communication with Their Young Children about Food written by Alexandra Malia Timpson Jackson and published by . This book was released on 2018 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The promotion and adoption of healthy behaviors in children are critical. Parents play an important role in the development of these behaviors, wanting their children to adopt healthy behaviors, yet struggling to do so. The impact of communication about food and nutrition on the development of healthy behaviors in young children is relatively unknown. Additionally, as communication is bidirectional, it is important to understand how factors within the parent, including their perceived health and body image dissatisfaction, may influence communication about food and nutrition within the parent-child dyad.
Download or read book The State of Food Security and Nutrition in the World 2018 written by Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations and published by Food & Agriculture Org.. This book was released on 2018-09-14 with total page 302 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: New evidence this year corroborates the rise in world hunger observed in this report last year, sending a warning that more action is needed if we aspire to end world hunger and malnutrition in all its forms by 2030. Updated estimates show the number of people who suffer from hunger has been growing over the past three years, returning to prevailing levels from almost a decade ago. Although progress continues to be made in reducing child stunting, over 22 percent of children under five years of age are still affected. Other forms of malnutrition are also growing: adult obesity continues to increase in countries irrespective of their income levels, and many countries are coping with multiple forms of malnutrition at the same time – overweight and obesity, as well as anaemia in women, and child stunting and wasting.
Download or read book The Public Health Effects of Food Deserts written by National Research Council and published by National Academies Press. This book was released on 2009-07-02 with total page 114 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the United States, people living in low-income neighborhoods frequently do not have access to affordable healthy food venues, such as supermarkets. Instead, those living in "food deserts" must rely on convenience stores and small neighborhood stores that offer few, if any, healthy food choices, such as fruits and vegetables. The Institute of Medicine (IOM) and National Research Council (NRC) convened a two-day workshop on January 26-27, 2009, to provide input into a Congressionally-mandated food deserts study by the U.S. Department of Agriculture's Economic Research Service. The workshop, summarized in this volume, provided a forum in which to discuss the public health effects of food deserts.
Download or read book Associations Between Diet Quality Vegetable Availability and Access and Food Security in Low income Children written by Matthew James Landry and published by . This book was released on 2019 with total page 170 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Food insecurity is a pervasive problem in the United States, and has been previously associated with adverse health and wellbeing in children. The mechanism that underlies this association is assumed to be poor dietary intake, which is likely a result of lack of access to healthy, affordable foods. The purpose of this research was to examine associations between dietary quality, vegetable availability and access, and food insecurity within low-income children. Cross-sectional data from TX Sprouts, a school-based randomized controlled cooking, gardening, and nutrition intervention, were used. Public health and surveillance efforts rely on accurate measures of child food insecurity; however, research suggests that current efforts which utilize parent report of child-level food insecurity may be inaccurate or underestimate the true prevalence. The first aim was to compare child versus parent perceptions of child-level food security status via questionnaires within a large, ethnically diverse population. Previous approaches to alleviating food insecurity and providing nutritious foods, like vegetables, have focused on community or policy level barriers that these households may face. However, even when these barriers have been overcome, individual and interpersonal barriers to vegetable availability, access, and utilization may still persist. The second aim was to examine the relationship between individual and interpersonal barriers to availability, access and utilization of vegetables and household food insecurity. The third aim was to examine the relationship between self-reported food insecurity and dietary quality. Research in this area was needed as evidence linking food insecurity to child dietary intake has been largely unclear and has utilized parent's perception of child-level food insecurity. The results of this research demonstrated the discordance that exists between child report and parent perceptions of child-level food insecurity and that additional research is needed in large, nationally representative samples. Further, within food-insecure households, significant barriers to access, availability, and utilization of vegetables were found. These barriers serve as ideal targets for future interventions seeking to improve vegetable consumption in low-income children. Lastly, food insecurity was associated with lower diet quality. Interventions targeting food insecure children are needed to improve dietary quality as this may alleviate some of the detrimental impacts of food insecurity on health and wellbeing
Download or read book Parenting Matters written by National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine and published by National Academies Press. This book was released on 2016-11-21 with total page 525 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Decades of research have demonstrated that the parent-child dyad and the environment of the familyâ€"which includes all primary caregiversâ€"are at the foundation of children's well- being and healthy development. From birth, children are learning and rely on parents and the other caregivers in their lives to protect and care for them. The impact of parents may never be greater than during the earliest years of life, when a child's brain is rapidly developing and when nearly all of her or his experiences are created and shaped by parents and the family environment. Parents help children build and refine their knowledge and skills, charting a trajectory for their health and well-being during childhood and beyond. The experience of parenting also impacts parents themselves. For instance, parenting can enrich and give focus to parents' lives; generate stress or calm; and create any number of emotions, including feelings of happiness, sadness, fulfillment, and anger. Parenting of young children today takes place in the context of significant ongoing developments. These include: a rapidly growing body of science on early childhood, increases in funding for programs and services for families, changing demographics of the U.S. population, and greater diversity of family structure. Additionally, parenting is increasingly being shaped by technology and increased access to information about parenting. Parenting Matters identifies parenting knowledge, attitudes, and practices associated with positive developmental outcomes in children ages 0-8; universal/preventive and targeted strategies used in a variety of settings that have been effective with parents of young children and that support the identified knowledge, attitudes, and practices; and barriers to and facilitators for parents' use of practices that lead to healthy child outcomes as well as their participation in effective programs and services. This report makes recommendations directed at an array of stakeholders, for promoting the wide-scale adoption of effective programs and services for parents and on areas that warrant further research to inform policy and practice. It is meant to serve as a roadmap for the future of parenting policy, research, and practice in the United States.
Download or read book Working Mother written by and published by . This book was released on 2003-10 with total page 190 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The magazine that helps career moms balance their personal and professional lives.
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