Food Insecurity in German households: Qualitative and Quantitative Data on Coping, Poverty Consumerism and Alimentary Participation

Pfeiffer, Sabine; Ritter, Tobias; Oestreicher, Elke

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“…; Lambie‐Mumford and Dowler, ; Pfeiffer et al . ). IUGR is a very important obstetric complication with an incidence that varies according to socio‐economic, ethnic and other factors.…”

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“…C, higher end-diastolic sphericity indices, indicative of ventricular remodelling, were noted in the IUGR (P < 0.01) and OLD groups (P < 0.001). security is a significant problem, even in economically advanced countries (Coleman-Jensen et al 2014;Lambie-Mumford and Dowler, 2014;Pfeiffer et al 2015). IUGR is a very important obstetric complication with an incidence that varies according to socio-economic, ethnic and other factors.…”

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Cardiac remodelling in a baboon model of intrauterine growth restriction mimics accelerated ageing

Kuo

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The Journal of Physiology

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Extensive rodent studies have shown that reduced perinatal nutrition programmes chronic cardiovascular disease. To enable translation to humans, we developed baboon offspring cohorts from mothers fed ad libitum (control) or 70% of the control ad libitum diet in pregnancy and lactation, which were growth restricted at birth. We hypothesized that intrauterine growth restriction (IUGR) offspring hearts would show impaired function and a premature ageing phenotype. We studied IUGR baboons (8 male, 8 female, 5.7 years), control offspring (8 male, 8 female, 5.6 years - human equivalent approximately 25 years), and normal elderly (OLD) baboons (6 male, 6 female, mean 15.9 years). Left ventricular (LV) morphology and systolic and diastolic function were evaluated with cardiac MRI and normalized to body surface area. Two-way ANOVA by group and sex (with P < 0.05) indicated ejection fraction, 3D sphericity indices, cardiac index, normalized systolic volume, normalized LV wall thickness, and average filling rate differed by group. Group and sex differences were found for normalized LV wall thickening and normalized myocardial mass, without interactions. Normalized peak LV filling rate and diastolic sphericity index were not correlated in control but strongly correlated in OLD and IUGR baboons. IUGR programming in baboons produces myocardial remodelling, reduces systolic and diastolic function, and results in the emergence of a premature ageing phenotype in the heart. To our knowledge, this is the first demonstration of the specific characteristics of cardiac programming and early life functional decline with ageing in an IUGR non-human primate model. Further studies across the life span will determine progression of cardiac dysfunction.

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“…; Lambie‐Mumford and Dowler, ; Pfeiffer et al . ). IUGR is a very important obstetric complication with an incidence that varies according to socio‐economic, ethnic and other factors.…”

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confidence: 97%

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confidence: 99%

Cardiac remodelling in a baboon model of intrauterine growth restriction mimics accelerated ageing

Kuo

et al. 2016

The Journal of Physiology

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“…Despite this rising phenomenon, the UK government have struggled to explain why food bank use is growing, and have continually dismissed the links between welfare reform and food banks, even when faced with empirical evidence from academics and frontline charities which has shown how benefit sanctions and delays, fuel poverty, and low paid, insecure work drive people towards food banks (see: Lambie-Mumford et al 2014;Garthwaite 2016;Loopstra et al 2015;Perry et al 2014). General growth trends in the UK, particularly in relation to the Trussell Trust foodbank network and amount of food redistributed, are being experienced elsewhere in Europe and internationally (Poppendieck 1998;Pfeiffer 2015;Silvasti 2015;Tarasuk et al 2014).…”

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Stigma, shame and ‘people like us’: an ethnographic study of foodbank use in the UK

Garthwaite

2016

Journal of Poverty and Social Justice

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Foodbanks and other charitable activities are fast becoming an established part of austerity Britain. This paper is based on ethnographic research undertaken over a two-year period in North East England, exploring the lived experiences of health inequalities for residents in the most and least affluent areas. Findings show how the majority of foodbank users experienced stigma, fear, and embarrassment, which was at times aggravated by representations in ‘poverty porn’ television shows. Stigma could be overcome once people recognised that ‘other people like us’ were receiving a food parcel. Finally, the practice of ‘Othering’ was evident across the research sites.

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“…What we have coined as 'alimentary participation' [8] , defined as experiencing the social function of food in public and together with others, has become crucial in a modern and individualised consumer society. We do not learn anything about occasions of eating out in the Statistics on Income and Living Conditions/ Eurostat dataset.…”

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Hidden and Neglected: Food Poverty in the Global North - The Case of Germany

Pfeiffer¹,

Oestreicher²,

Ritter³

2016

World Review of Nutrition and Dietetics

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Although still a powerful economy, Germany faces rising income inequality and food insecurity. Quantitative data show that nutritional poverty in Germany has become a fact, especially for social welfare recipients. This contribution gives an overview and discusses the limits of results from different data sources, such as German food surveys, and addresses how affected population groups are systematically underrepresented. To give a more thorough impression of food insecurity in Germany, the article compares nutritional consumption data from the Statistics on Income and Living Conditions/Eurostat survey for Germany, the members of the European Union 27 (EU27), and Greece. The figures for Germans with incomes below 60% of the median equivalised income who cannot afford one proper meal every second day are worse than those in the remaining EU27 member nations, and the figures for their children are not so far from the figures for crisis-stricken Greece. As eating is not only about nutrition but also a means of social activity, we consider the ability to eat and drink with friends an issue of alimentary participation. The percentages of Germans who cannot afford a drink or meal with others at least once a month is very high compared to the rates of the remaining EU27 member nations and Greece. The provided quantitative figures prove that we see serious signs of food poverty in portions of Germany, despite its comparatively strong economy. Data from hundreds of qualitative interviews describing how people stricken by food insecurity try to cope with the situation complement these results. Such data are very important, as governments widely underestimate the problem and leave it to be dealt with by food banks as the only institutional solution.

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Food Insecurity in German households: Qualitative and Quantitative Data on Coping, Poverty Consumerism and Alimentary Participation

Cited by 44 publications

References 8 publications

Cardiac remodelling in a baboon model of intrauterine growth restriction mimics accelerated ageing

Cardiac remodelling in a baboon model of intrauterine growth restriction mimics accelerated ageing

Stigma, shame and ‘people like us’: an ethnographic study of foodbank use in the UK

Hidden and Neglected: Food Poverty in the Global North - The Case of Germany

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