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- Title
Increasing Access to Healthy Foods through Improving Food Environment: A Review of Mixed Methods Intervention Studies with Residents of Low-Income Communities.
- Authors
Ziso, Dea; Chun, Ock K.; Puglisi, Michael J.
- Abstract
Food insecurity is a broad and serious public health issue in the United States, where many people are reporting lack of access to healthy foods. The reduced availability of healthy, affordable foods has led to increased consumption of energy-dense and nutrient-poor foods, resulting in increasing the risk for many chronic diseases such as obesity, cardiovascular diseases, and type 2 diabetes mellitus. Thus, identifying promising approaches to increase access to healthy foods through improving the food environment is of importance. The purpose of this review article is to highlight how the food environment affects directly a person's food choices, and how to increase access to healthy foods through improving environmental approaches. The literature search was focused on finding different approaches to improve food security, primarily those with an impact on food environment. Overall, potential solutions were gathered through multilevel environmental approaches, including nutrition education and peer education, community-based participatory research, and policy changes in supplemental nutrition programs. A recommendation to reduce food insecurity is learning to create meals with a variety of seasonal fruits and vegetables purchased from affordable farmers' markets.
- Subjects
UNITED States; OBESITY risk factors; CHRONIC diseases &; psychology; CARDIOVASCULAR diseases risk factors; FOOD security; SOCIOECONOMIC factors; TYPE 2 diabetes; FOOD supply; DISEASE risk factors
- Publication
Nutrients, 2022, Vol 14, Issue 11, p2278
- ISSN
2072-6643
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.3390/nu14112278