Obesity and diabetes, the built environment, and the ‘local’ food economy in the United States, 2007

Salois, Matthew

doi:10.1016/j.ehb.2011.04.001

Cited by 96 publications

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“…On the other hand, Salois (2012) found that the greater the number of smaller local food retail outlets in a location, the lower the rate of obesity and diabetes in that location. The author assumes that this is due to the possibility of encouraging better and healthier food choices.…”

Section: Local Food Qualitymentioning

confidence: 91%

Local food: benefits and failings due to modern agriculture

Coelho

Coelho²,

Egerer

2018

Sci. agric. (Piracicaba, Braz.)

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This paper aims to examine the issue raised by the consumption of locally produced food in all its various aspects, and in particular, addresses how this practice contributes to local and global sustainability. It analyzes the different definitions of local food, the strategies used, the implications of the distance traveled in the transportation of food to the consumer's table -food miles, the relationships between local food consumption and sustainability, farming practices that reduce carbon emissions, contribution of urban agriculture to local food, local trading of food produced by rural farmers, as well as a number of relationships between the consumption of local food and human nutrition and health, local food protection and the ability to support local food production for humanitarian actions in disaster situations. The promotion of "local food" is a complex problem covering environmental issues, the economy and health.Transportation is not the only factor that determines how efficient it is to consume local food. Often, the technologies used for agricultural production are those most responsible for the degree of sustainability in the production and supply of food to the population. Local production does not always mean lower emissions of greenhouse gases. In general, the consumption of local foods, produced in ways adapted to the local environment using technologies with an ecological basis, is something beneficial and salutary for the environment, economy and society in general.

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Section: Local Food Qualitymentioning

confidence: 91%

Local food: benefits and failings due to modern agriculture

Coelho

Coelho²,

Egerer

2018

Sci. agric. (Piracicaba, Braz.)

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“…Phelps, Hodgson and Lamson [43] suggested that it is necessary to consider ethnic group differences. Salois [44] pointed out that a "local" food economy might be an important factor in the prevention of obesity and diabetes. Finally, Pan and Ward [45] suggested the necessity of developing models to explain the relationship between self-related health and diabetes self-management in a non-Western context.…”

Section: Discussionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Comparison of the Length of Stay and Medical Expenditures among Japanese Hospitals for Type 2 Diabetes Treatments: The Box-Cox Transformation Model under Heteroscedasticity

Nawata¹,

Kawabuchi²

2016

Health

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In this paper, we analyzed length of stay (LOS) in hospitals and medical expenditures for type 2 diabetes patients. LOS was analyzed by the power Box-Cox transformation model when variances differed among hospitals. We proposed a new test and consistent estimator. We rejected the homoscedasticity of variances among hospitals, and then analyzed the LOS of 12,666 type 2 diabetes patients hospitalized for regular medical treatments collected from 60 general hospitals in Japan. The variables found to affect LOS were age, number of comorbidities and complications, introduced by another hospital, one-week hospitalization, 2010 revision, specific-hospitalization-period (SHP), and principal diseases E11.5, E11.6 and E11.7. There were surprisingly large differences in ALOS among hospitals even after eliminating the influence of characteristics and conditions of patients. We then analyzed daily medical expenditure (DME) by the ordinary least squares methods. The variables that affected DME were LOS, number of comorbidities and complications, acute hospitalization, hospital's own outpatient, season, introduced by another hospital, one-week hospitalization, 2010 revision, SHP, time trend, and principal diseases E11.2, E11.4 and E117. The DME did not decrease after the SHP. After eliminating the influences of characteristics and conditions of patients, the differences among hospitals were relatively small, 12% of the overall average. LOS is the main determinant of medical expenditures, and new incentives to reduce LOS are needed to control Japanese medical expenditures. Since at least 99% of patients require medical care after leaving the hospital, systems that take proper care of patients for long periods of time after hospitalization are absolutely necessary for efficient treatment of diabetes.K. Nawata, K. Kawabuchi 50

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“…1 Food produced locally is considered to be more nutritious because it is fresher (i.e., less travel time means more nutrient retention), and increased availability of local food is thought to improve nutrition because greater consumption of fresh fruits and vegetables reduces the incidence of obesity and other health-related problems (Alkon & Mares, 2012;Allen & Guthman, 2006;Bagdonis, Hinrichs, & Schafft, 2009;Cleveland et al, 2011;Ferrer, Fonsah, Ramirez, & Escalante, 2011;Freedman, 2009;Salois, 2012). Local food is assumed to be more environmentally sustainable: closer production/consumption relationships mean fewer food miles, less reliance on fossil fuels, and smaller-scale farms purportedly use more ecologically sound production practices (Clancy, 2015;Goodman & Goodman, 2007;Lockie & Halpin, 2005;Norberg-Hodge, Merrifield, & Gorelick, 2002;Pirog, 2004).…”

Section: Qualities Attributed To Local Foodmentioning

confidence: 99%

Local Food, Food Democracy, and Food Hubs

Perrett

Jackson

2015

JAFSCD

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In western North Carolina, where we and others have been working to build local food systems for the last 15 years, food hubs are part of an expanding network of local food distribution infrastructure intended to help the region's smaller local farms access larger, more mainstream market outlets. The impact of food hubs on the region's evolving food system, however, is contradictory. At the same time that food hubs further the development of local food supply chains and create market opportunities for farms, they can also run contrary to the bigger and longer-term goals of the local food movement. In this viewpoint article, we look critically at the role of nonprofit food hubs in efforts to build local food systems. Speaking from our experiences in the local food movement in western North Carolina and drawing from social movements and food systems scholarship, we argue that food hubs, when used as primary mechanisms of local food system building, can deprive the movement of its capacity to activate broad participation in the food system. We argue that efforts to build local food systems need a foundation of work that engages people (such as farmers, citizens, people who work in the food industry) in processes that can shape the practices, values, and impacts of systems of food production and distribution. While they can mitigate the mismatch between the smaller scale typical of local food and larger mainstream markets, food hubs alone cannot challenge industry norms and practices, and they can even aid the food industry in maintaining the status quo.

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Obesity and diabetes, the built environment, and the ‘local’ food economy in the United States, 2007

Cited by 96 publications

References 54 publications

Local food: benefits and failings due to modern agriculture

Local food: benefits and failings due to modern agriculture

Comparison of the Length of Stay and Medical Expenditures among Japanese Hospitals for Type 2 Diabetes Treatments: The Box-Cox Transformation Model under Heteroscedasticity

Local Food, Food Democracy, and Food Hubs

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