Retail-based healthy food point-of-decision prompts (PDPs) increase healthy food choices in a rural, low-income, minority community

Point-of-Purchase Efforts to Increase Healthy Food Choice

Nutrieconomic model can facilitate healthy and low-cost food choices.

OBJECTIVE Promotion of healthy eating can no longer be postponed as a priority, given the alarming growth rate of chronic degenerative diseases in Western countries. We elaborated a nutrieconomic model to assess and identify the most nutritious and affordable food choices. DESIGN Seventy-one food items representing the main food categories were included and their nationally representative pri...

Access to Healthy and Less Healthy Food Options In a Low-Income, Racially Diverse Seattle Neighborhood

Access to Healthy and Less Healthy Food Options In a Low-Income, Racially Diverse Seattle Neighborhood Sara Denise Coulter Chair of the Supervisory Committee: Associate Professor, Donna B. Johnson Department of Health Services There is a need for more place-based research on the food environments of low-income and/or racial minority populations for the purpose of developing policy initiatives a...

Food Stress in Adelaide: The Relationship between Low Income and the Affordability of Healthy Food

Healthy food is becoming increasingly expensive, and families on low incomes face a difficult financial struggle to afford healthy food. When food costs are considered, families on low incomes often face circumstances of poverty. Housing, utilities, health care, and transport are somewhat fixed in cost; however food is more flexible in cost and therefore is often compromised with less healthy, ...

Community Perspectives on Access to and Availability of Healthy Food in Rural, Low-Resource, Latino Communities

INTRODUCTION Attention has focused on the food environment as a result of the growing concern with obesity rates among Latinos in rural areas. Researchers have observed associations between a lack of physical access to affordable produce in areas where supermarkets and grocery stores are limited and poor dietary intake and obesity; these associations are high in rural, low-resource neighborhood...