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The association of food insecurity and cardiometabolic risk factors was independent of body mass index in Iranian women

open access: yesJournal of Health, Population and Nutrition, 2022
Background Investigations on food insecurity have shown that food insecurity is inversely associated with health. We examined the association of food insecurity and cardiometabolic risk factors in women living in Shiraz, Iran. Methods The cross-sectional
Maral Hashemzadeh   +3 more
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Household food insecurity and children dietary diversity during the COVID-19 outbreak

open access: yesAcTion: Aceh Nutrition Journal, 2023
The COVID-19 pandemic raises the likelihood of food insecurity and affects the nutritional status of children. This study aims to examine the relationship between household food poverty and children's dietary diversity. The cross-sectional study has done
Suryana Suryana   +5 more
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Food insecurity in older female mice affects food consumption, coping behaviors, and memory.

open access: yesPLoS ONE, 2021
Food insecurity correlates with poor physical and mental health in older individuals, but has not been studied in a laboratory animal model. This explorative study developed a laboratory mouse model for analyzing the impact of food insecurity on food ...
Samantha M Estacio   +10 more
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Policy-oriented food insecurity estimation and mapping at district level in Pakistan

open access: yesAgricultural and Resource Economics, 2022
Purpose. Food insecurity maps reveal the spatial variability of relevant indicators in relevant units in geographically disaggregated levels. This study is based on a systematic analysis of the least studied areas related to food insecurity in Pakistan ...
Rubina Kiran, Abdul Jabbar
doaj   +1 more source

Household food insecurity and associated factors in the Northeast of Iran: a cross-sectional study

open access: yesBMC Nutrition, 2023
Background Food Insecurity (FI) is a global health concern. For the first time, this study evaluated households’ food insecurity and factors related to it in Golestan province, North of Iran.
Mohammad Reza Honarvar   +8 more
doaj   +1 more source

Mental and substance use disorders and food insecurity among homeless adults participating in the At Home/Chez Soi study.

open access: yesPLoS ONE, 2020
BackgroundFew studies have examined how food insecurity changes over time when living with severe mental disorders or substance use disorders. This study identifies food insecurity trajectories of homeless adults participating in a trial of a housing ...
James Lachaud   +7 more
doaj   +1 more source

Experience of food security – vulnerability analysis. WWW i.e. Who, Why, Where

open access: yesWieś i Rolnictwo, 2015
The article takes as its starting point a discussion of “conventional wisdom” that asserts there is an equation that “poor = vulnerable”, i.e. “to be poor” means necessarily “to be vulnerable” and vice versa, and provides several examples confuting the ...
Paolo Santacroce
doaj   +1 more source

Delay Discounting and the Income-Food Insecurity-Obesity Paradox in Mothers

open access: yesJournal of Obesity, 2023
Food insecurity, defined as unpredictable access to food that may not meet a person’s nutritional needs, is paradoxically associated with higher BMI (kg/m2) and obesity.
Leonard H. Epstein   +3 more
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Prevalence of food insecurity at household level and its associated factors in rural Puducherry: A cross-sectional study

open access: yesIndian Journal of Community Medicine, 2020
Background: Malnutrition is a consequence of food insecurity. Food insecurity in India became a public health problem due to explosive population growth and widening gap between rich and poor. It also has a detrimental effect on factors related to health
Bharathnag Nagappa   +5 more
doaj   +1 more source

Geographic and socio-demographic predictors of household food insecurity in Canada, 2011–12

open access: yesBMC Public Health, 2019
Background Household food insecurity is a potent social determinant of health and health care costs in Canada, but understanding of the social and economic conditions that underlie households’ vulnerability to food insecurity is limited.
Valerie Tarasuk   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

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