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| Provedor de dados: |
AgEcon
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| País: |
United States
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| Título: |
Access to Local Agriculture and Weight Outcomes
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| Autores: |
Berning, Joshua P.
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| Data: |
2012-05-08
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| Ano: |
2012
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| Palavras-chave: |
Local agriculture
Obesity
Food access
Food Consumption/Nutrition/Food Safety
Health Economics and Policy
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| 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.
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| Tipo: |
Article
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| Idioma: |
Inglês
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| Identificador: |
http://purl.umn.edu/123313
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| Relação: |
Agricultural and Resource Economics Review> Volume 41, Number 1, April 2012
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| Formato: |
15
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