Nutrition and the Life Course
This program operates in virtually every community in America to address senior hunger and isolation.
What is Meals on Wheels?
What is the Socio-Ecological model?
An area where it is difficult to buy food, sometimes related to buying high-quality food, sometimes to distance, and sometimes to cost.
What is a food desert?
The main federal agency overseeing U.S. food and agricultural policy
What is the "U.S. Department of Agriculture" (USDA)?
The Food Distribution Program on Indian Reservations (FDPIR) provides USDA Foods to income-eligible households but they must be a member of this subgroup.
What is a Native American or tribe?
According to American College Health Association National College Health Assessment (ACHA-NCHA), 37% of college students experience this condition due to disordered eating.
What is obesity?
Confidence that one can achieve a set goal or behavior change.
What is self-efficacy?
Due to COVID, Monroe County's children received $35.00 per month for Fruits and Vegetables compared to just $9 pre-COVID if they participated in this program.
What is Women, Infant and Children (WIC)?
This legislation is known as the primary agricultural and food law run by the federal government. It is also passed every 5 years by the U.S. Congress.
What is the Farm Bill?
The right of peoples to healthy and culturally appropriate food, and their right to define their own food and agriculture systems
What is food sovereignty?
Insufficient intake of energy from macronutrients (carbohydrate, protein, fat) and micronutrients
What is undernutrition?
A theory that posits that subjective norms, attitudes, and behavioral control explain the variance in intention to perform a behavior
What is the theory of planned behavior?
Environments saturated with unhealthy foods because of the large numbers of corner stores and fast-food outlets in them
What is a food swamp?
Children are eligible to receive reduced-price school breakfasts and lunch if the household
income is between 130% and 185% of federal poverty guidelines under this program.
What is the National School Lunch Program (NSLP)?
An obesity prevention program developed in France, now franchised into many jurisdictions.
What is EPODE?
In the qualitative study on food insecurity among aging women, the participants attributed their food insecurity to a lack of access to this.
What are food/grocery stores?
Thank goodness for these folks; they're the most likely among us to try something new!
What are innovators?
The podcast, "How Food Insecurity Shapes Children and Families" outlined the horrifying reality that these two subgroups experience double the food insecurity rates of their white counterparts.
Who are Black and Hispanic populations?
Nearly 80% of the Farm Bill’s funding goes to these type of programs.
What are nutrition programs?
The visible habits and patterns that confer particular food attributes to groups of people.
What are Foodways?
Thanks to a peer-led nutritional program, teens were used to improve this nutritional outcome.
What is fruit and vegetable (or lower fat) consumption?
"There's no way that will happen to me, I don't get sick!" is an example of this Health Belief Model construct.
What is perceived susceptibility?
The film "There's Food, its just Not Real Food" details the harms of high-glucose products being sold to vulnerable communities. These sugary goods stimulate this neurotransmitter, known as the brain's "feel good" chemical.
What is dopamine?
This U.S. president once famously said, "The only thing we have to fear, is fear itself." We can thank him for creating the Farm Bill.
Who is President Franklin D. Roosevelt?
This country developed the culturally-based Obesity Prevention and Lifestyle (OPAL) program, greatly influenced by the French EPODE model.
What is Australia?