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Appendix F: Roundtable Discussions
Pages 225-230

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... 4. What are key questions for setting research priorities that would further the understanding of the relationship between food insecu rity and obesity and help identify approaches that would reduce both food insecurity and obesity?
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... • Focus interventions on specific subpopulations, including minority women, groups with the lowest incomes, rural populations, and areas of concentrated urban poverty. • Tailor approaches to the specific geographic, cultural, and eco nomic context.
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... • What are the biological effects of such factors as feast versus fam ine and variations in the food supply? • What are the pathways through which poverty and deprivation lead to food insecurity, obesity, and poor health outcomes from a chronic disease and life course perspective?
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... • How can the existing infrastructure and resources be leveraged to reduce food insecurity? (Examples include increasing SNAP ben efits, conducting SNAP outreach, and increasing participation in an evidence-based context that recognizes such factors as dietary quality.)
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... • Add new or existing questions to more surveys. • Overlap time sets for risk measures, physical activity, and sedentary activity.
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... • Study how parents or caregivers perceive food insecurity and obe sity among their children. • Study aspects of physical activity such as variations by social class, the presence of physical activity deserts, the influence of the built environment, and correlations with poverty.
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