Sentences with phrase «limited access to healthy foods»

While in some cases it may be due to poverty and limited access to healthy foods, in many cases it is actually due to a diet that's too heavy in processed foods.

These innovative machines will make convenient access to nutritious foods including entire entrees, a reality for busy workers and residents in communities with limited access to healthy foods.

These differences are often connected to location and economic status While the media covers such high - profile current issues as discrimination, low - income jobs, and a dwindling middle class, there's little discussion regarding the limited access to healthy food that many in the United States experience every day.

Through our outreach initiatives we're taking on important challenges: from helping military families cope with deployments to improving nutrition for households with limited access to healthy food.

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The lawmakers asked that the review include consideration of what effect the $ 13.7 billion deal could have on access to healthy foods in so - called food deserts where residents may have limited access to fresh groceries.

«We deliver low - cost, healthy food to zip codes across the country that before Amazon had limited access to a large selection of high quality foods,» Huseman wrote to Fudge.

We would love it if you would consider joining us in our fundraising campaign to help provides packages of healthy food for kids aged 5 - 14 years with limited or no access to food each weekend.

You can be hungry and obese, obese and malnourished, obese and have limited access to healthy fresh foods.

Many children and parents struggle to make healthy food choices, particularly given that offices, schools, and other public settings may provide limited access to nutritious foods and snacks.

This is not to say, of course, that you shouldn't set limits or that you should allow access to foods 24/7, but if a child is truly not hungry (or using this as an excuse to not eat healthy foods), don't force the issue or resort to junk food just to get them to eat something.

Unless you're living in major cities like New York or Toronto, he said, easy and affordable access to healthy foods may be limited.

The current standards were introduced because voluntary school food guidelines introduced in 2001 requiring caterers to provide healthy options but not to limit access to less healthy food had failed to promote healthier eating in school.

Child obesity is linked to limited access to healthy and affordable foods, limited opportunities for physical activity, greater availability of fast food restaurants (especially near schools), and greater exposure to food - related marketing (Larson, Story, & Nelson, 2009; Powell, Slater, & Chaloupka, 2004; Kumanyika & Grier, 2006).

On the flip side, if your companion pet is being finicky and doesn't want to readily give up their «junk food» diet for a healthier, all - natural one, try limiting their access to the food.

Overcrowded and poor quality housing in many Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities, and limited access to fresh and healthy food, are also major contributors to health inequality.