Data/hora: 04/06/2024 04:11:02

Provedor de dados: | 31
País: | United States
Título: | Local Food Impacts on Health and Nutrition
Autores: | Ferrer,   Myra Clarisse R.; Fonsah,   Esendugue Greg; Ramirez,   Octavio A.; Escalante,   Cesar L.
Data: | 2011-05-03
Ano: | 2011
Palavras-chave: | Local foods; Diabetes; Obesity; Food environment; Farmers' market; Agricultural and Food Policy; Consumer/Household Economics; Food Consumption/Nutrition/Food Safety; Health Economics and Policy; I15; I31.
Resumo: | Prevalence of local foods is believed to answer several food issues one of which is health and nutrition. This study focused on the on the availability of local foods to consumers and see its relationship with two specific diet-related diseases namely, obesity and diabetes. Other variables were included in the analysis to provide additional evidence to previous findings. Factors considered are divided into 5 groups namely diet-, local food-, environment-, education- and gender-related factors. Diet- and environment-related variables provide the most perceptive findings while local food variables provided significant however weak evidence of positive impacts to health and nutrition.
Tipo: | Conference Paper or Presentation
Idioma: | Inglês
Identificador: | http://purl.umn.edu/103664
Relação: | Agricultural and Applied Economics Association&gt;2011 Annual Meeting, July 24-26, 2011, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
Formato: | 17