A systematic literature review of indicators measuring food security

I Manikas, BM Ali, B Sundarakani - Agriculture & food security, 2023 - Springer
Measurement is critical for assessing and monitoring food security. Yet, it is difficult to
comprehend which food security dimensions, components, and levels the numerous …

Food insecurity and cardiovascular disease risk

Y Liu, HA Eicher-Miller - Current atherosclerosis reports, 2021 - Springer
Abstract Purpose of Review This review examines the current epidemiological evidence for
the relationship between levels of food insecurity and cardiovascular disease (CVD) …

Food insecurity and less frequent cooking dinner at home are associated with lower diet quality in a national sample of low-income adults in the United States during …

JA Wolfson, H Posluszny, S Kronsteiner-Gicevic… - Journal of the Academy …, 2022 - Elsevier
Background Food insecurity is a critical public health problem in the United States that has
been associated with poor diet quality. Cooking dinner more frequently is associated with …

Women's health: optimal nutrition throughout the lifecycle

EJM Feskens, R Bailey, Z Bhutta, HK Biesalski… - European journal of …, 2022 - Springer
Sex differences are an important consideration when researching and establishing policies
for nutrition and optimal health. For women's health, there are important physiologic …

Usual nutrient intake and dietary quality of low‐income US older adults

Y Qin, AE Cowan, RL Bailey, S Jun… - Applied Economic …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
We estimate nutrient intake from diet and total sources including dietary supplements (DS),
and dietary quality of low‐income US older adults (60+ years) using the 2007–2016 …

A randomized study of food pantry environment-level change following the SuperShelf intervention

C Caspi, N Gordon, C Bliss Barsness… - Translational …, 2022 - academic.oup.com
The charitable food system is rapidly evolving. Interventions that target the food pantry
environment and use behavioral economics are in high demand, but can be difficult to …

Grocery Purchase Changes Were Associated With A North Carolina COVID-19 Food Assistance Incentive Program: Study examines a COVID-19 food assistance …

CM Lowery, R Henderson, N Curran, S Hoeffler… - Health …, 2022 - healthaffairs.org
Many low-income Americans experience food insecurity, which may have been exacerbated
by economic instability during the early stages of the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020. In this …

Applying the Healthy Eating Index-2015 in a sample of choice-based Minnesota food pantries to test associations between food pantry inventory, client food selection …

CE Caspi, C Davey, CB Barsness, J Wolfson… - Journal of the Academy …, 2021 - Elsevier
Background Food pantry clients are at a high risk for diet-related chronic disease and
suboptimal diet. Relatively little research has examined diet quality measures in choice …

Black and Latina women's lived experiences with navigating neighborhood food swamps to find healthy food: A photovoice approach

C Antrum, A Atoloye, O Ajayi, D Holter… - Journal of Human …, 2024 - Taylor & Francis
To understand the perspectives of individuals living within food swamps and how they may
perceive their access to healthy vs. unhealthy foods before and during the COVID-19 …

Validating a nutrition ranking system for food pantries using the Healthy Eating Index-2015

MF Gombi-Vaca, R Xu, M Schwartz, M Battista Hesse… - Nutrients, 2022 - mdpi.com
In 2020, charitable food organizations began adopting Healthy Eating Research (HER)
nutrition guidelines, which rank individual foods in tiers (eg, green, yellow, or red) based on …