Sentences with phrase «consistent access to healthy foods»

In Washington state alone, 15 % of our residents do not have consistent access to healthy foods.

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That's almost one in four who don't have consistent access to enough nutritious food to lead healthy, active lives.

Menu of Hope was created with the goal of raising funds to provide healthy meals and nutrition and physical education to Ohio's at - risk children who do not have consistent access to the food they need to grow, learn and thrive.

It may help you worry less to know that in the early years, all emotionally and physically healthy kids who have consistent access to enough food will eat only what they need.

In announcing the overall No Student Goes Hungry Program in December, Gov. Andrew Cuomo said there are «nearly 2.7 million New Yorkers, including almost 1 million children, who do not have consistent access to the food they need to live an active, healthy life.»

Poor nutrition is a major determinant of excess morbidity and mortality among Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples, 1 contributing to over 16 % of the burden of disease.2 In this issue of the Journal (page 549), consistent with the «economics of food choice» theory, 3 Brimblecombe and O'Dea report that the diet of a remote Aboriginal community was high in energy - dense, nutrient - poor foods — the cheapest options to satisfy hunger.4 This energy — cost differential restricts access to healthy food, and helps explain the persistently poor dietary patterns and deplorable health status of remote Indigenous communities.4 Placing nutrition issues in an economic framework highlights the investment required to improve Indigenous nutrition.4 But what has been learned to date about where resources should be directed?