Making Healthy Choices to Reduce Childhood Obesity: Community Capitals and Food and Fitness

Flora, Cornelia Butler; Gillespie, Ardyth H.

doi:10.1080/15575330903001430

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“…:360). Augmenting these findings that report stratified patterns of diet‐related poor health outcomes (e.g., obesity, diabetes, hypertension) is a copious body of health and nutrition research found in scholarly journals (see for example Cummins and Macintyre ; Flora and Gillespie ; Moore and Diez Roux ; Nestle et al. ; Schafft et al.…”

Section: Healthy Food Availability and Poverty In The United Statesmentioning

confidence: 88%

“…Hunger-relief initiatives are widespread and a significant portion of federal and state relief efforts. Furthermore, connections between poor food availability (presence of stores), poor accessibility (ability to get to stores), and poor health have been established by numerous empirical reports (Beaulac, Kristjansson, and Cummins 2009;Cummins and Macintyre 2006;Flora and Gillespie 2009;Moore and Diez Roux 2006;Nestle et al 1998;Pampel, Krueger, and Denney 2010;Schafft, Jensen, and Hinrichs 2009). Most recently, these studies and relief initiatives have turned toward analyses of availability of fresh and nutritious foods and efforts to promote gardening and local food production.…”

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confidence: 99%

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Food Availability in the Heartland: Exploring the Effects of Neighborhood Racial and Income Composition

2015

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This article examines the relationships between neighborhood racial and income composition and healthy food availability. We explore the extent to which physical and social isolation affects healthy food availability for groups marginalized by race and class in a context largely missing from the literature. We use census tract data and five‐year estimates from the American Community Survey to produce maps illustrating the patterns of race and income composition in Topeka, Kansas. Included in these maps are data points illustrating the distribution of stores offering healthy foods. We find that, as in the large metro areas analyzed thus far, the distribution of healthy food stores in Topeka is similarly patterned. Blacker (and poorer) neighborhoods tend to have the lowest levels of healthy food availability. We conclude with a discussion of the relevance of this work to the knowledge base regarding food environments and health in the United States.

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Section: Healthy Food Availability and Poverty In The United Statesmentioning

confidence: 88%

Section: Introductionmentioning

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Food Availability in the Heartland: Exploring the Effects of Neighborhood Racial and Income Composition

2015

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“…An extension of grower-consumer relationships is illustrated in farmers' market environments, where food growers showcase their produce, seek to educate consumers, or simply engage in conversations that contribute to the critical social interaction aspect that has all but disappeared in the more rigid and impersonal supermarket chain environments. Finally, today's emphasis in many consumer environments concerning the availability of local foods (Ostrom, 2006) or the promotion of healthier eating habits (Flora & Gillespie, 2009) further emphasize the strategic role of farmers' markets in promoting community development in different ways.…”

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Investing in the social fabric of rural and urban communities: a comparative study of two Alabama farmers' markets

Alonso

O’Neill

2011

Community Development

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This paper investigates the role that farmers' markets play in enhancing the social fabric of once thriving rural communities. The paper reports the findings from a comparative study of visitor motivations to two community farmers' markets in south west Alabama, one located in a rural environment and newly established, while the second, more established market (since 2004) is located in a much more populated and more affluent community. A total of 356 visitors participated in the study by completing a questionnaire. Part of the findings demonstrate that overall, visitors from both markets are more motivated to attend for the opportunity to engage in social discourse and out of a sense of support for local agriculture and farmers, than purely monetary driven exchange economics. This form of involvement, however, was more obvious among participants to the market located in the rural environment. These findings, at least with respect to the more rural respondent group, further support the contention that benefits from hosting farmers' markets are not limited to the food aspect (fresh, local foods), but communities can also significantly benefit in social terms.

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“…Walkable scores for selected three east Texas counties: physical activity and policy implications. International Journal of Human Sciences, 12(2), 674-687. doi:10.14687/ijhs.v12i2.3256 678 community issues such as poverty reduction and rural development in dry areas (Flora & Thiboumery, 2005), community resilience (Magis, 2010), sustainable livelihoods and community change (Gutierrez-Montes, Emery & Fernandez-Baca, 2009), childhood obesity (Flora & Gillespie, 2009), community transformation (Emery & Flora, 2006), and measuring success in communities (Jacobs, 2007). These studies resonate with the premise of this study about the walkability in selected east Texas counties.…”

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Walkable scores for selected three east Texas counties: physical activity and policy implications

Simiyu¹,

Njororai²,

Jivetti

2015

HumanSciences

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Introduction: Physical activity has become an important intervention against overweight and obesity cases in the USA and worldwide. One key aspect of physical activity is walking, which has been identified as a component that can easily be incorporated into one's lifestyle. Recent studies on physical activity have focused on promoting walking as a health enhancing endeavor. In 2010, the proportion of Texas adults who reported no participation in leisure time activity (26.7%) was significantly higher than the national average (24.4%). However, many Texans, like most Americans, are sedentary. Purpose: This study examined the walkability of the environments in selected counties in east Texas including Wood, Van Zandt and Smith counties. Methods and material: The data was drawn from the Walkscore.com and was based on all the zip codes in the three counties in east Texas. The community capitals were used a framework for analysis. Results: Only three (8.82%) zip codes had walkable scores between 70 and 89; five (14.71%) had scores between 50 and 69; four (11.76%) between 25 and 49 and 22 (64.71%) had a score below 24. Discussion: The vast majority (26, 76.47%) of zip codes are highly dependent on vehicle transport. Conclusions and recommendations: Stakeholders need therefore to focus on causes for the minimal walkability so that practical interventions are generated to enhance the physical activity friendly infrastructure so as to enhance the well-being of the residents in these three east Texas counties.

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Making Healthy Choices to Reduce Childhood Obesity: Community Capitals and Food and Fitness

Cited by 26 publications

References 28 publications

Food Availability in the Heartland: Exploring the Effects of Neighborhood Racial and Income Composition

Food Availability in the Heartland: Exploring the Effects of Neighborhood Racial and Income Composition

Investing in the social fabric of rural and urban communities: a comparative study of two Alabama farmers' markets

Walkable scores for selected three east Texas counties: physical activity and policy implications

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