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Appendix H: Brief List of Recurring Workshop Discussions
Pages 235-240

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... OVERVIEW Food insecurity negatively impacts health and well-being in adults and children -- beyond any potential association with obesity. The importance of continuing to facilitate improvements in food insecurity status among individuals, households, and communities was underscored by participants throughout the workshop.
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... Bringing together varied academic disciplines such as public health, nutrition, psychology, sociology, and economics, and encouraging research collaborations across organizations can make valuable contributions including expanding methodologies and frameworks used to examine the relationship. RESEARCH TOPICS A Life Course Perspective • Impacts of food insecurity during critical periods of development such as fetal development and child growth and development, in cluding examining the association and mechanisms of deprivation in childhood and obesity later in life.
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... • Stress was mentioned in nearly every session -- including both phys iological and psychological stress; being food insecure and/or living in a low-resource environment may be stressful and conversely, stress may impact food insecurity status. • Other potential factors recurring throughout the workshop in cluded poverty, diet quality, maternal/caregiver mental health, in fant feeding and parenting behaviors, gender, age, violence, social support, and physical activity.
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... Research Designs • Prospective and retrospective studies to better understand topics such as how food insecurity early in life shapes longer-term eating behaviors, intergenerational impacts, and acculturation, and to identify mediators and moderators and examine changes in or the persistence of food insecurity. • Intervention studies or experimental studies to examine causality and to better understand program effectiveness.
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... • Use advanced statistical analysis such as structural equation modeling.
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