While there is increasing interest in reducing obesity, relatively few of these efforts focus on rural communities. A … multi-tiered model to reduce obesity risk factors was developed and implemented to change food behavior and health awareness … increase in, a) obesity as cancer risk awareness and b) food nutrition awareness. Also, increased food nutrition awareness …

secondary data were used to establish a correlation between Farm to School, obesity, and food hardship. The results indicate …

The fight against obesity in the U.S. has become a priority area for policy makers due to the additional health risks … and health care costs. In developing policy to lower obesity rates, it is important to accurately characterize the impact … treated as heterogeneous at least for these factors in obesity policy and related analyses. …

Aspects of the built environment may be contributing to the upward trend in obesity through constrained availability … local availability of retail food stores and their influence on the risk of obesity in North Carolina. Data on food stores …

This paper examines regional differences in obesity rates, Body Mass Index (BMI) and dietary quality, using data from … and obesity prevalence may be higher in the Deep South states, but the difference is explained by demographic …