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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 +3 more
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Food Access and Experience of Food Insecurity in Nigerian Households during the COVID-19 Lockdown
Food and Nutrition Sciences, 2021 The food insecurity experiences and related behaviors of Nigerian households during the COVID-19 lockdown have not been fully discussed. This study was conducted to elicit information on the impact of COVID-19 lockdown on economic and behavioral patterns
F. Samuel +5 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 +7 more
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Obesity Reviews, 2007 This paper was commissioned by the Foresight programme of the Office of Science and Innovation, Department of Trade and Industry © 2007 Queen’s Printer and Controller of HMSO; published with permission Journal compilation © 2007 The International Association for the Study of Obesity. obesity reviews 8 (Suppl.
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"Treat everybody right": Examining foodways to improve food access
Journal of Agriculture, Food Systems, and Community Development, 2021 Detroit is regularly assumed to be a “food desert” despite contradicting evidence. With fruits and vegetables available at each of Detroit’s 70 independent, full-line grocery stores, there remains a lack of understanding among media and academics of ...
Alex B. Hill
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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 +4 more
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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 +7 more
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Frontiers in Public Health, 2018 Over the last 6 years, a coordinated “healthy corner store” network has helped an increasing number of local storeowners stock healthy, affordable foods in Camden, New Jersey, a city with high rates of poverty and unemployment, and where most residents ...
Benjamin W. Chrisinger +7 more
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Food Access, Food Deserts, and the Women, Infants, and Children Program
Journal of Agricultural and Resource Economics, 2017 We examine the shopping behavior of Women, Infants, and Children (WIC) Program participants located in food deserts in the Greater Los Angeles area relative to peers in GLA located outside of food-desert boundaries.
Qi Wu +2 more
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Urban Agriculture Extension in Florida: Barriers, Needs, and Opportunities
Journal of Human Sciences and Extension, 2023 Much of the United States is urbanizing, increasing the importance of developing Extension programs geared toward urban audiences. There has been an increasing interest in urban agriculture (UA) in recent years as an outgrowth of the “local food ...
Catherine G. Campbell +2 more
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