Obesity Prevention and National Food Security: A Food Systems Approach

2012
Interventions that cultivate sustainable food systemsto promote health, prevent obesity, and improve food securityhave the potential for many large-scale and long-lasting benefits including improvements in social, environmental, health, and economic outcomes. We briefly summarize findings from previous research examining associations between obesity and food insecurity and discuss the need for greater synergy between food insecurity initiatives and national obesity prevention public health goals in the United States. The common groundbetween these two nutrition-related public health issues is explored, and the transformation needed in research and advocacy communities around the shared goal of improving population healththrough individual, environmental, and policy level changes to promote healthy sustainable food systemsis discussed. We propose an ecological framework to simultaneously consider food insecurity and obesity that identifies levers for change to promote sustainable food systemsto improve food securityand prevent obesity.
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