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Provedor de dados: | 31
País: | United States
Título: | Access to Local Agriculture and Weight Outcomes
Autores: | Berning,   Joshua P.
Data: | 2012-05-08
Ano: | 2012
Palavras-chave: | Local agriculture; Obesity; Food access; Food Consumption/Nutrition/Food Safety; Health Economics and Policy.
Resumo: | Recent studies examine the impact of the built environment on health outcomes such as obesity. Several studies find for certain populations that access to unhealthy food has a positive effect on obesity, whereas access to healthy choices has a negative effect. Given the growth and popularity of locally grown food, we examine how individual weight outcomes are affected by access to direct-to-consumer local food. After controlling for potential endogeneity, we find that greater access to local food has a negative association with individual weight outcomes. We also find a negative association with greater weight loss over a one-year period. These results provide evidence that local food access can have potential indirect benefits.
Tipo: | Article
Idioma: | Inglês
Identificador: | http://purl.umn.edu/123313
Relação: | Agricultural and Resource Economics Review&gt; Volume 41, Number 1, April 2012
Formato: | 15