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Food Environment And Childhood Obesity, Yucong Jiao
Food Environment And Childhood Obesity, Yucong Jiao
Graduate Theses and Dissertations
This thesis examines whether children's food environment, especially food stores that have fresh produce, affects obesity prevalence among elementary school children in the state of Arkansas. Misclassified food outlet types in the Dun and Bradstreet commercial data set were first corrected and then food environment measures were computed and aggregated to geographic regions corresponding to school attendance areas. After applying classical panel estimation, it was found that the fixed effects model fit the data best. Results indicate that an additional supermarket within a one-mile radial of the census neighborhood block center will bring down childhood obesity prevalence by 0.58 percent, …
Nutrition Knowledge Of Pre-Medical Students, Jennifer Newcome, Cynthia Moore
Nutrition Knowledge Of Pre-Medical Students, Jennifer Newcome, Cynthia Moore
Discovery, The Student Journal of Dale Bumpers College of Agricultural, Food and Life Sciences
Nutrition knowledge has been shown to be increasingly critical in physician practice. Therefore, education has also become very critical. Medical schools have been working over the last few decades to include nutrition education in their curriculum, but due to many barriers, it is difficult to fulfil requirements. It is the purpose of this descriptive study to determine the nutrition knowledge of pre-medical students at the University of Arkansas and conclude if a nutrition class for these students would be beneficial. The average score of the nutrition knowledge assessment was 11.2 ± 3.04 out of a possible 23. Because the literature …