Food Insecurity and Health: Practices and Policies to Address Food Insecurity among Children

Chronic Food Insecurity Transitory Food Insecurity

Food UTILIZATION Utilization is commonly understood as the way the body makes the most of various nutrients in the food. Sufficient energy and nutrient intake by individuals is the result of good care and feeding practices, food preparation, diversity of the diet and intra-household distribution of food. Combined with good biological utilization of food consumed, this determines the nutritional...

Food Insecurity and Chronic Diseases: The Editorial

Food insecurity and physical activity insecurity among rural Oregon families☆

Among rural families, rates of both child obesity and household food insecurity (FI) are higher compared to non-rural families. These disparities result from a complex interplay of social and environmental conditions that influence behavior. The Transtheoretical Model suggests individual readiness to change underlies success in modifying obesity-preventing behaviors; however, whether an associa...

Food Insecurity and Excess Weight among Brazilian Women and Children

The opening sentence to the article by Schlüssel et al. expresses a classical debate in the field of nutrition, referring to the interrelations between poverty, nutritional status, and food insecurity. I will analyze the following in relation to the apparent paradox highlighted by the authors: (a) the indicators traditionally used in the analysis of the phenomena studied and (b) the possible ex...

Food Insecurity and Excess Weight among Brazilian Women and Children

The obesity/food insecurity paradox has been present in the scientific literature for the past two decades 1, based mostly on evidence from the U.S. population. The potential mediators of such a paradox were recently reviewed. Overall, the review confirmed that food insecurity and obesity continue to be positively associated in women; new mediators were revealed (such as marital status, stresso...