SNAP Participants Improved Food Security And Diet After A Full-Service Supermarket Opened In An Urban Food Desert

Cantor, Jonathan; Beckman, Robin L.; Dastidar, Madhumita Ghosh; Richardson, Andrea; Dubowitz, Tamara

doi:10.1377/hlthaff.2019.01309

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“…We used longitudinal data from an ongoing, neighborhoodrepresentative cohort of predominantly Black households residing in 2 urban food deserts in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. 19,20 We examined changes in food insecurity and access to food, by SNAP participation status, both before and during the early stages of the COVID-19 pandemic. Our ability to focus on food insecurity among Black households living at or near the federal poverty guidelines may help in tailoring interventions to address the disproportionate economic effects of the COVID-19 pandemic on these households.…”

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Objectives The coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic has disproportionately strained households experiencing poverty, particularly Black and Latino households. Food insecurity, which entails having limited or uncertain access to a sufficient quantity of nutritious food, is a key pandemic-related consequence. We examined how people enrolled in the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) have been affected by the pandemic, particularly Black participants and participants residing in food deserts. Methods Using survey data from a longitudinal cohort study of predominantly Black low-income adults aged ≥18 residing in urban food deserts in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, we examined changes in food insecurity and SNAP participation before COVID-19 (2018) and early in the COVID-19 pandemic (March–May 2020). We modeled changes in food insecurity from 2018 to 2020 via covariate-adjusted logistic regression. Results Food insecurity increased significantly among participants enrolled in SNAP and surveyed in both 2018 and 2020 (from 25.9% in 2018 to 46.9% in 2020; P < .001). Compared with cohort participants not enrolled in SNAP at both points, cohort participants enrolled in SNAP in 2018 and 2020 had the highest rates of using a food bank in 2020 (44.4%) and being newly food insecure in 2020 (28.9%) (ie, they were food insecure in 2020 but not in 2018). Conclusions Food insecurity during the COVID-19 pandemic increased among low-income Black households enrolled in SNAP and residing in a food desert. Public health recovery efforts might focus on modifying SNAP to improve the food security of people experiencing poverty.

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“… 157 In the United States, a federal initiative to incentivize grocery stores and supermarkets to open in areas lacking access to nutritious, fresh food improved the availability of healthy foods but failed to show effects on diet, 158 , 159 except among Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) participants. 160 This finding depicts a potential synergistic effect of supply‐ and demand‐side interventions in improving diet that deserves to be further studied. Similarly, stocking improvements that followed the recent revisions of the Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants, and Children (WIC) have been observed in many US cities, 161 they did not vary by neighborhood racial/ethnic composition 162 and seemed to improve dietary intake.…”

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“…One of the few studies employing a quasi‐experimental design using a sample of school‐aged children living in Arkansas, USA, found that the opening of a supermarket had a positive effect in low‐income children's BMI, but the closing of supermarkets did not alter children's weight 157 . In the United States, a federal initiative to incentivize grocery stores and supermarkets to open in areas lacking access to nutritious, fresh food improved the availability of healthy foods but failed to show effects on diet, 158,159 except among Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) participants 160 . This finding depicts a potential synergistic effect of supply‐ and demand‐side interventions in improving diet that deserves to be further studied.…”

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Food environment solutions for childhood obesity in Latin America and among Latinos living in the United States

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Summary The food environment is a major contributor to unhealthy diets in children and, therefore, to the increasing rates of obesity. Acclaimed by scholars across the world, Latin American countries have been leaders in implementing policies that target different aspects of the food environment. Evidence on the nature and to what extent children are exposed and respond to unhealthy food environments in the region and among Latinos in the United States is, however, deficient. The objective of this review is to use the integrated International Network for Food and Obesity/noncommunicable diseases (NCDs) Research, Monitoring and Action Support (INFORMAS) framework to create healthy food environment to (i) compare the key elements of childhood obesity‐related food environments in Latin America and for Latinos living in the United States; (ii) describe the evidence on solutions to improve childhood obesity‐related food environments; and (iii) identify research priorities to inform solutions to fight childhood obesity in these populations. We found that an integrated body of evidence is needed to inform an optimal package of policies to improve food environments to which children in Latin America and Latino children in the United States are exposed and more efficiently translate policy solutions to help curb growing childhood obesity levels across borders.

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“…For example, nourishing diets support microbial communities that benefit mental, physical, and immune system function(s) ( 9 – 11 ). However, oppressive social structures result in financial, temporal, geographic, and logistical barriers to accessing healthy diets ( 12 – 14 ) and, thereby, beneficial microbiomes. Exposure to a variety of xenobiotics, including profligately employed antibiotics ( 15 ), is associated with depleted and distorted microbial communities ( 16 – 20 ).…”

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SNAP Participants Improved Food Security And Diet After A Full-Service Supermarket Opened In An Urban Food Desert

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SNAP Participants and High Levels of Food Insecurity in the Early Stages of the COVID-19 Pandemic

SNAP Participants and High Levels of Food Insecurity in the Early Stages of the COVID-19 Pandemic

Food environment solutions for childhood obesity in Latin America and among Latinos living in the United States

Introducing the Microbes and Social Equity Working Group: Considering the Microbial Components of Social, Environmental, and Health Justice

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