NUTR 200 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Food Security, Hispanic And Latino Americans, Food Desert
10 Feb 2020
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Hunger: hunger is the physical discomfort experiences by individuals who have consumed insufficient amounts of food, temporary: no health risks, chronic: severe consequences. Food security: access to safe, secure, nutritious, and sustainable food supply, able to obtain sufficient nutritious food. Food insecurity: lack of access to sufficient amount of safe and nutritious food, unable to obtain sufficient nutritious food. Inadequate physical, social, or economic access: globally: poverty, war, natural disaster. Low food security: food intake is adequate, but food quality, variety, and/or desirability reduced, very low food security, food intake is not always adequate due to lack of food access and availability. Food security in the us: 88% of households are food secure, ~12% of us households are food insecure. Food insecurity leads to food choices that are convenient and inexpensive: convenient and inexpensive foods are characteristically highly processed, energy-dense, often nutrient-poor foods, consuming a diet of highly processed, energy dense foods increases the risk for chronic diseases.
