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Food Insecurity, Neighborhood Food Access, and Food Assistance in Philadelphia [PDF]

Journal of Urban Health, 2014
An estimated 17.6 million American households were food insecure in 2012, meaning they were unable to obtain enough food for an active and healthy life. Programs to augment local access to healthy foods are increasingly widespread, with unclear effects on food security. At the same time, the US government has recently enacted major cuts to federal food
Victoria L, Mayer, Amy, Hillier, Marcus A, Bachhuber, Judith A, Long   +3 more
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Using a Mobile Food Pantry to Address the Food Insecurity Needs of College Students

Journal of Human Sciences and Extension, 2023
Food insecurity is a prevalent issue throughout the United States, the state of Oklahoma, and on Oklahoma State University’s (OSU) Stillwater campus.
Madison Lapke , Barbara Stoecker , M. Craig Edwards , Janice Hermann   +3 more
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Review of "A recipe for gentrification: Food, power, and resistance in the city"

Canadian Food Studies, 2021
The book, A Recipe for Gentrification: Food, Power, and Resistance in the City is a well-crafted and useful contribution to the food environment, food access and food justice literatures.
Rachel Engler-Stringer
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A New Xanthone from the Pericarp of

Natural Product Communications, 2013
A new prenylxanthone, garcimangostanol ( 1 ), was isolated from the EtOAc-soluble partition of the ethanol extract of the pericarp of Garcinia mangostana L., along with three known compounds, namely 8-deoxygartanin ( 2 ), 1-isomangostin ( 3 ), and ...
Manqin Fu, Samuel X. Qiu, Yujuan Xu, Jijun Wu, Yulong Chen, Yuanshan Yu, Gengsheng Xiao   +6 more
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I Had to Go in a Bubble: Investigating the Effects of COVID-19 on Fertility Treatments and Nutrition

Women's Health Reports, 2022
Background: Individuals modify their lifestyles including nutrition to improve fertility. The COVID-19 pandemic limited access to clinical offices or resulted in the closure of fertility clinics.
Elizabeth A. Claydon, Diana L. Davidson, Kathleen M. McCarty, Jeffrey Wang   +3 more
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Development of a Quantitative One-Step RT-PCR Method for the Detection of Sabin 2 Virus Contamination in a Novel Oral Poliovirus Vaccine Type 2

Vaccines, 2021
To control circulating vaccine-derived type 2 poliovirus outbreaks, a more genetically stable novel Oral Poliovirus Vaccine type 2 (nOPV2) was developed by targeted modifications of Sabin 2 genome.
Hasmik Manukyan, Erman Tritama, Rahnuma Wahid, Azeem Ansari, John Konz, Konstantin Chumakov, Majid Laassri   +6 more
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Household Food Insecurity Status and Determinants: The Case of Botswana and South Africa

Agraris: Journal of Agribusiness and Rural Development Research, 2021
This study used a survey questionnaire to investigate the state and determinants of household food security in South Africa and Botswana. In South Africa, 1557 households in two District Municipalities within Eastern Cape Province participated in the ...
Simbarashe Ndhleve, Clarah Dapira, Hlekani Muchazotida Kabiti, Zibongiwe Mpongwana, Elphina Nomabandla Cishe, Motebang Dominic Vincent Nakin, Stephen Shisanya, Keitirele Patricia Walker   +7 more
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Neighborhood Food Access in Early Life and Trajectories of Child Body Mass Index and Obesity.

JAMA Pediatr
Aris IM, Wu AJ, Lin PD, Zhang M, Farid H, Hedderson MM, Zhu Y, Ferrara A, Chehab RF, Barrett ES, Carnell S, Camargo CA, Chu SH, Mirzakhani H, Kelly RS, Comstock SS, Strakovsky RS, O'Connor TG, Ganiban JM, Dunlop AL, Dabelea D, Breton CV, Bastain TM, Farzan SF, Call CC, Hartert T, Snyder B, Santarossa S, Cassidy-Bushrow AE, O'Shea TM, McCormack LA, Karagas MR, McEvoy CT, Alshawabkeh A, Zimmerman E, Wright RJ, McCann M, Wright RO, Coull B, Amutah-Onukagha N, Hacker MR, James-Todd T, Oken E, ECHO Cohort Consortium.   +43 more
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Comparing two distance measures in the spatial mapping of food deserts: The case of Petržalka, Slovakia

Moravian Geographical Reports, 2017
Over the last twenty years or so, researchers’ attention to the issue of food deserts has increased in the geographical literature. Accessibility to large-scale retail units is one of the essential and frequently-used indicators leading to the ...
Bilková Kristína, Križan František, Horňák Marcel, Barlík Peter, Kita Pavol   +4 more
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Environmental Justice and the Food Environment in Prince George’s County, Maryland: Assessment of Three Communities

Frontiers in Built Environment, 2019
Lack of access to a health-promoting food environment can lead to poor health outcomes including obesity which is a problem for African-Americans in Prince George's County, Maryland.
Lucy Kavi, Jair Sinisterra, Coline Bodenreider, Meslech Bellay, Kamran Ayub, Vivek Ravichandran, Jan-Michael Archer, Sacoby Wilson   +7 more
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