Category: Food
1. Food Swamps Predict Obesity Rates Better Than Food … – NCBI
by K Cooksey-Stowers · 2017 · Cited by 263 — This paper investigates the effect of food environments, characterized as food swamps, on adult obesity rates. Food swamps have been Introduction · Data and Empirical Strategy · Results · Discussion(1)…
by A Chew · 2020 · Cited by 2 — In the United States, food swamps are defined as areas with 4 or more corner stores within 0.4 km (0.25 miles) of home or where the ratio of Background · Data sources and map logistics · Highlights · Action(2)…
Sep 3, 2018 — Food swamp describes an urban environment where there is a lot of food for sale that is not nutritious, or worse, and therefore is seen to (3)…
2. What Is a Food Swamp? — Byte Wellness
Mar 26, 2020 — Food swamps are communities that are overwhelmed by low-quality food sources like fast food restaurants and convenience stores. Just like food (4)…
Sep 24, 2018 — Recently, a related term — “food swamps” — has been applied to communities that are oversaturated with unhealthy dining options, such as fast- (5)…
swamps. A third type of food environment has also been referenced, known as a food mirage. environment in Canadian urban settings is the food swamp.3.7 pages(6)…
3. Baltimore City Food Swamps
by A Behrens · Cited by 4 — mdfoodsystemmap.org jhsph.edu/clf. What is a food swamp? A food swamp is a place where unhealthy foods are more readily available than healthy foods. (Unhealthy.1 page(7)…
May 3, 2019 — A: You’ve likely heard about food deserts, urban areas with limited access to grocery stores that sell affordable, nutritious food.(8)…
4. An Overabundance of Fast Food: Food Swamps Are the New …
Dec 11, 2019 — Food swamps, according to the USDA’s definition, are communities where fast food and junk food are overwhelmingly more available than healthy (9)…
Dec 28, 2017 — It’s not just a lack of grocery stores that’s making us fat. It’s an overabundance of fast food. A close-up photograph of a fast-food sandwich (10)…
Sep 5, 2018 — Food swamp describes an urban environment where there is a lot of food for sale that is not nutritious, or worse, and therefore is seen to (11)…
Mar 25, 2021 — The term “food swamp” was coined about a decade ago to denote areas where fast-food chains and convenience stores abound, swamping healthier (12)…
A food swamp is a geographic area in which there is a dearth of healthful food choices and instead there is ample access to fast and processed foods.(13)…
5. What are the Signs You Live in a Food Swamp? – The Habitat
Dec 17, 2020 — A food swamp is an area where unhealthy food options greatly outnumber grocery stores. Food swamps have many fast-food restaurants and (14)…
by M our Team — Food swamps on the other hand, are geographic regions that provide adequate personal and community access to relatively healthful and affordable (15)…
May 21, 2018 — The term “food swamps” was just introduced a few years ago. Food swamps typically exist in food deserts, which are neighborhoods with limited (16)…
6. Food deserts: Definition, effects, and solutions – Medical News …
A food swamp is a region that provides adequate access to healthful and affordable food, as well as an overabundance of less healthful food options.Obesity: 38% or moreActivity level: Male body typeFit non-athletes: 14–17%Overweight: 26–37%(17)…
Download Table | Food Swamp Measures. from publication: Food Swamps Predict Obesity Rates Better Than Food Deserts in the United States | This paper (18)…
by D Tonumaipe’a · Cited by 1 — Food swamps refer to neighborhoods that have higher density of outlets selling unhealthy foods. The disproportionate number of fast food and (19)…
Apr 12, 2021 — We are constantly surrounded by bad foods, in food swamps. Some have tried to blame America’s unhealthy eating on physical distance from (20)…
7. Food Swamps
Food Swamps. A food swamp is a geographical area with a high-density of establishments selling high-calorie fast food and junk food, relative to healthier (21)…
Check out this newly released implementation road map of the Good Food Zone policy Food swamps – the over-allocation of unhealthy food in a neighborhood.(22)…
Aug 7, 2019 — Upside-down food access like that can have consequences, particularly for impoverished, non-white communities without reliable transportation, (23)…
8. Food Swamps: We need to ensure access to HEALTHY food
A Food Swamp is a community/area plagued with a high-density of unhealthy and low-nutrient foods combined with disproportionate advertising (i.e. coupons (24)…
Nov 14, 2017 — A new study by the Rudd Center for Food Policy and Obesity at the University of Connecticut suggests that living in a food swamp – a (25)…
Apr 30, 2021 — Can Rochester’s new Food Policy Council drain the city’s “food swamp”? On the anniversary of Daniel Prude’s fatal encounter with Rochester (26)…
9. Andrew Yang Visits NYC’s Biggest ‘Food Swamp,’ Lays Out …
Apr 19, 2021 — East New York (ENY) is the biggest food swamp in NYC, meaning there are more available fast food options than healthy options, including 41 (27)…
Nov 12, 2015 — According to the Huffington Post a “food swamp” is void of food options offering fresh produce, meat, and fish—but rather well stocked with (28)…
10. Food Apartheid: Racialized Access to Healthy Affordable Food
Apr 2, 2021 — Swamp, desert, mirageall these sound like places to stay away from. Language is important and using these terms prevents us from naming and (29)…
Apr 27, 2021 — Are food swamps and deserts opposite sides of the same coin? I contend that the terms are descriptions of the same locations.(30)…
by AZ Phillips · 2020 · Cited by 5 — This study examines the extent to which “food swamps” are associated with greater rates of hospitalizations for complications among adults with diabetes over (31)…
During slavery and sharecropping periods food was used as a tool of control, today urban food swamps and food deserts are another form of control. “Big Food” (32)…
Food swamps and deserts often co-exist. Availability of nutritious food is one determinant of people’s diet; others are cost, cultural, racial, ethnic, (33)…
The “food deserts” and “food swamps” of Southern California. The term “food desert” was first coined during the mid-1990s in the U.K. (34)…
by PX Protocol — Description: The presence of a food swamp is calculated using the traditional Retail Food. Environment Index per county, which includes the number of fast (35)…
by K Cooksey Stowers · 2020 · Cited by 5 — Little is known about how the distribution of food deserts and food swamps relate to disparities in self-reported dietary habits, and health (36)…
Mar 23, 2020 — Food desert” is an often-cited description of a neighborhood with limited access to affordable, nutritious food. But you may be surprised to (37)…
Dec 16, 2019 — What is a food swamp? Why does it matter? According to the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA), food deserts are defined as: “Low-income (38)…
Excerpt Links
(1). Food Swamps Predict Obesity Rates Better Than Food … – NCBI
(2). Food Swamps Surrounding Schools in Three Areas of … – CDC
(3). Please don’t call it a food swamp – The Conversation
(4). What Is a Food Swamp? — Byte Wellness
(5). Food Swamps and Food Deserts in Poor Communities
(6). FOOD DESERTS AND FOOD SWAMPS: A PRIMER – National …
(7). Baltimore City Food Swamps
(8). Q&A: What is a food swamp and how could it affect my health?
(9). An Overabundance of Fast Food: Food Swamps Are the New …
(10). Food Swamps Are the New Food Deserts – The Atlantic
(11). Please don’t call it a food swamp: U of T expert – University of …
(12). Try these 7 healthy strategies to navigate a food swamp
(13). Food swamp – HousingWiki – yimby.wiki
(14). What are the Signs You Live in a Food Swamp? – The Habitat
(15). Food Insecurity and Food Deserts: How are they Related?
(16). New York City’s Biggest ‘Food Swamps’
(17). Food deserts: Definition, effects, and solutions – Medical News …
(18). Food Swamp Measures. | Download Table – ResearchGate
(19). Food havens not swamps: a strength-based approach to …
(20). Memo to the UN: Time to Drain the Food Swamp – Chicago …
(21). Food Swamps
(22). Food Equity and Access
(23). Draining the Food Swamp – Santa Fe Reporter
(24). Food Swamps: We need to ensure access to HEALTHY food
(25). Food Swamps Predict Obesity Rates Better Than Food Deserts
(26). New Food Policy Council looking to drain Rochester’s ‘food …
(27). Andrew Yang Visits NYC’s Biggest ‘Food Swamp,’ Lays Out …
(28). Signs You’re Living in a Food Swamp – ActiveBeat
(29). Food Apartheid: Racialized Access to Healthy Affordable Food
(30). Draining the food swamp
(31). U.S. county “food swamp” severity and hospitalization rates …
(32). The Challenge | Fertile Ground
(33). Food Deserts And Swamps Impacting On Health: Tale Of Two …
(34). South LA Food Desert – Compton Chamber of Commerce
(35). Social Determinants of Health Measure: Food Swamp Definition
(36). Racial Differences in Perceived Food Swamp and … – MDPI
(37). What is a food swamp? | EveryThingWhat.com
(38). Mapping Food Deserts (and Swamps) in Manhattan and the …
