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Childhood Obesity

Healthy Affordable Food

RWJF Priority: Increase access to high-quality, affordable foods through new or improved grocery stores and healthier corner stores and bodegas

Research shows that having a supermarket or grocery store in a neighborhood increases residents’ fruit and vegetable consumption and is associated with lower body mass index (BMI) among adolescents. Yet, many families do not have access to healthy affordable foods in their neighborhoods. This is especially true in lower-income communities, where convenience stores and fast-food restaurants are widespread, but supermarkets and farmers’ markets are scarce.

Childhood Obesity Policy Priorities

3 p.m. to Bedtime: Crunch Time for Children and Obesity

Crunch Time: Challenges and Solutions

Crunch Time: Challenges and Solutions

A poll reveals that many parents face a variety of barriers to helping their children lead healthy lives, especially during the "crunch time" from 3 p.m. to bedtime.

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Economic Contextual Factors and Child Body Mass Index

April 1, 2011 | Book

This policy paper is from a series published by the National Bureau of Economic Research on obesity in the United States. The authors examined the relationship between children's weight and fast food and fruit and vegetable prices, and children's weight and availability of fast-food restaurants, full-service restaurants, supermarkets, grocery stores and convenience stores.

Food Prices and the Dynamics of Body Weight

April 1, 2011 | Book

A popular policy option for addressing the growth in weight has been the imposition of a “fat tax” on selected foods that are deemed to promote obesity. This study tested the short- and long-run body weight consequences of changing food prices.

Food Stamp Program and Consumption Choices

April 1, 2011 | Book

This study supports findings from earlier studies showing that the Food Stamp Program does not have any statistically significant effect on food consumption. This study examined consumption patterns in families headed by single mothers with a high school education or less.

Live Well Greenville

January 1, 2011 | Toolkit

These resources from San Souci Community Garden, were designed to serve as guides for gardeners in growing fresh, healthy food in their community gardens.

Convergence Partnership

October 31, 2012 | Program Result Report

The Convergence Partnership is a collaborative of funders creating healthy people in healthy places through policy and environmental change. It focuses on policy advocacy, access to healthy foods, and the built environment.

Measuring the Food Environment

April 1, 2009 | Journal Article

This article examines challenges of measurement in the field of food environment research. This relatively young field has not yet fully addressed psychometric measurement issues, the interaction of social, individual, and environmental factors, and the large scale of data produced from food environment studies.

Evaluation of Communities Creating Healthy Environments

September 18, 2009 | Evaluation

A participatory evaluation of Communities Creating Healthy Environments (C-CHE) is being conducted to evaluate grassroots activities that has been demonstrated to be optimally useful for grassroots advocacy in particular.