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Study: Perspectives on Community Gardens, Community Kitchens and Good Food Box Program 
Full title: Perspectives on Community Gardens, Community Kitchens and the Good Food Box Program in a Community-based Sample of Low-income Families
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OBJECTIVE: Growing recognition of the problem of household food insecurity in Canada has m...
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Growing Good Health
Stories about food these days are typically framed as environmental stories. How we can reduce our carbon footprint by buying local, or improve agricultural practices by choosing organic. Indeed, the universality of food has made it a highly effectiv...
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The Global Hunger Crisis: Tackling Food Insecurity in Developing Countries
Millions across the world face the daily challenge to find enough food to survive. Hunger is on the rise globally, with more than 1.2 billion people suffering from food insecurity. Rising prices are further restricting food access.
In this deeply ...
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Women's rights and the right to food
In the present report, submitted to the Human Rights Council in accordance with Council resolution 13/4, the Special Rapporteur on the right to food discusses the threats to women's right to food, identifying the areas that demand the most urgent att...
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Food Insecurity Among Households With Working-Age Adults With Disabilities
This report examines the effects of disabilities on household food security using newly available data on disabilities among adults from the Current Population Survey. The research considers both adults who are unable to work due to their disabilitie...
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Food insecurity makes diabetes self-management more difficult
Participants experiencing food insecurity had poorer diabetes-related measures at baseline but made significant improvements in HbA1c and self-efficacy. Low-income patients who were food insecure may be particularly receptive to diabetes self-managem...
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Food Insecurity and Mental Disorders in a National Sample of U.S. Adolescents
Food insecurity is associated with a wide range of adolescent mental disorders independently of other aspects of SES. Expansion of social programs aimed at decreasing family economic strain might be one useful policy approach for improving youth ment...
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Nutrient Intakes Linked to Better Health Outcomes Are Associated with Higher Diet Costs in the US
Nutrients commonly associated with a lower risk of chronic disease were associated with higher diet costs. By contrast, nutrients associated with higher disease risk were associated with lower diet costs. The cost variable may help somewhat explain w...
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2012 Global Hunger Index
World hunger, according to the 2012 Global Hunger Index (GHI), has declined somewhat since 1990 but remains “serious.” The global average masks dramatic differences among regions and countries. Regionally, the highest GHI scores are in So...
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Food Banks Canada Hunger Count
The only national survey of food banks and other food programs in Canada, HungerCount is unique in the depth and breadth of its understanding of food bank use in Canada.
The HungerCount report is based on a survey completed by our Affiliate Member...
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The State of Food Insecurity in the World 2012
The State of Food Insecurity in the World 2012 presents new estimates of undernourishment based on a revised and improved methodology. The new estimates show that progress in reducing hunger during the past 20 years has been better than previously...
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The Cost of Poverty in BC
Governments frequently claim that they can’t afford to take action on poverty, but a new study shows that it’s much more costly to allow poverty to continue and pay for the consequences.
Poverty is consistently linked to poor health, lo...
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A media advocacy intervention linking health disparities and food security
Media advocacy is a well-established strategy for transmitting health messages to the public. This paper discusses a media advocacy intervention that raised issues about how the public interprets messages about the negative effects of poverty on popu...
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The Color of Food - inequities in the American food chain
The Color of Food report is a broad survey of the food system, to map out the race, gender and class of workers along the supply chain.
The Applied Research Center recently embarked on a broad survey of the food system, to map out the race, ...
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Homeless people without enough to eat more likely to be hospitalized
One-fourth of homeless adults in this national survey were food insufficient, and this was associated with increased odds of acute health services utilization. Addressing the adverse health services utilization patterns of homeles...
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The poor still pay more: Challenges low income families face in consuming a nutritious diet
The Institute for Competitiveness & Prosperity, in collaboration with Open Policy Ontario’s John Stapleton and research consultant from Toronto Public Health, Brian Cook, releases its report recommending initiatives to help low income fa...
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Diabetes prevalence and income: Results of the Canadian Community Health Survey
Abstract
This paper contributes to a growing body of literature indicating the importance of income as a key socioeconomic status marker in accounting for the increased prevalence of type 2 diabetes (T2DM).
Methods
We analyzed da...
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The Effect of Recession on Child Well-being
This paper examines economic recessions with a specific focus on child well-being and the recent recession. The paper is organized into two parts: Part I describes how children fare across key dimensions of well-being during past and the recent reces...
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Household Food Security in the United States, 2011
An estimated 85.1 percent of American households were food secure throughout the entire year in 2011, meaning that they had access at all times to enough food for an active, healthy life for all household members. The remaining households (14.9 perce...
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The rising disparity in the price of healthful foods: 2004–2008
There is a growing price disparity between nutrient-dense foods and less nutritious options. Cost may pose a barrier to the adoption of healthier diets and so limit the impact of dietary guidance. Nutrient profiling methods provide objective crite...
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