Scholarly Work - Health & Human Development
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Contribution of wild foods to diet, food security, and cultural values amidst climate change
(2019-11)Wild foods are recognized to contribute to diet and food security through enhancing the availability of local, diverse, and nonmarket food sources. We investigated the contribution of wild foods to diet, food security, and ... -
Urban Horticulture, from Local Initiatives to Global Success Stories
(2019-12)Urban horticulture describes economically viable horticultural production activities conducted in a city or suburb. It is a growing segment of horticulture in the United States as well as in developing countries, where the ... -
Sustainability Dimensions of a North American Lentil System in a Changing World
(2019-10)Food production and consumption are among the largest drivers of global change. The adoption of lentil in production systems and in plant-based diets is a food system solution that can support the environmental, socio-economic, ... -
Dietary Beliefs and Management of Older American Indians With Type 2 Diabetes
(2019-07)Objectives This qualitative study examined dietary-related beliefs and self-management among older American Indians with type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM). Design Semistructured in-person interviews were conducted and ... -
Chinampas: An Urban Farming Model of the Aztecs and a Potential Solution for Modern Megalopolis
(2020-02)Urban horticulture is not as new as many people think. Throughout history, different techniques have been used to ensure sustainable urban agricultural production. A good example of this is the chinampa system, which was ... -
The UnProcessed Pantry Project Framework to Address Nutrition in the Emergency Food System
(2019-09)Low-income populations suffer a greater burden of chronic diseases and food insecurity, are more likely to consume ultraprocessed food, and are less likely to meet dietary recommendations than the general population.1,2 ... -
Using Microlending to Achieve SDG 2: A Qualitative Exploration of the Nutrition-Related Impacts of Microlending Participation in Manila, Philippines
(2020-02)Background: The recent rise of the double burden of malnutrition (i.e., the coexistence of underweight and overweight) in the Philippines presents a significant challenge to achieving numerous agreed-upon Sustainable ... -
Advancing an Integrative Framework to Evaluate Sustainability in National Dietary Guidelines
(2019-09-25)The food system is responsible for some of society's most pressing sustainability challenges. Dietary guidelines are one policy tool to help address the multiple sustainability challenges associated with food systems through ... -
Subjective Well-Being in Two Himalayan Communities, Post Road Development
(2019-06-19)Although the first road to ever be built into Humla, Nepal is still under construction, it has already spurred numerous sociocultural and economic changes, including an increased integration into the market economy, changing ... -
Characterization of synovial fluid metabolomic phenotypes of cartilage morphological changes associated with osteoarthritis
(2019-08)"Objective Osteoarthritis (OA) is a multifactorial disease with etiological heterogeneity. The objective of this study was to classify OA subgroups by generating metabolomic phenotypes from human synovial fluid. ... -
"I Want to See Those Memories": Social Affordances of Mobile Phone Cameras and Social Network Sites in Collegiate Drinking
(2019-06)Alcohol use remains a prominent feature of American collegiate social life. Emerging technological developments, particularly the proliferation of mobile phone cameras and the easy sharing of digital images on social network ... -
Variation of Adolescent Snack Food Choices and Preferences along a Continuum of Processing Levels: The Case of Apples
(2019)Food processing is used for transforming whole food ingredients into food commodities or edible products. The level of food processing occurs along a continuum from unprocessed to minimally processed, processed, and ... -
Environmental Factors Variably Impact Tea Secondary Metabolites in the Context of Climate Change: A Systematic Review
(2019-08)Climate change is impacting food and beverage crops around the world with implications for environmental and human wellbeing. While numerous studies have examined climate change effects on crop yields, relatively few studies ... -
Plate Waste in School Lunch: Barriers, Motivators, and Perspectives of SNAP-Eligible Early Adolescents in the US
(2019-07)Objective To determine barriers, motivators, and perspectives regarding plate waste reduction of early adolescents. Design Trained interviewers conducted audio-recorded individual interviews with adolescents. Setting ... -
Frailty in Older American Indians: The Native Elder Care Study
(2019-06)Introduction Frailty is often described as a reduction in energy reserves, especially with respect to physical ability and endurance, and it has not been examined in American Indians. The goals of this study were to ... -
Diversity, knowledge, and valuation of plants used as fermentation starters for traditional glutinous rice wine by Dong communities in Southeast Guizhou, China
(2019-04)BACKGROUND Beverages prepared by fermenting plants have a long history of use for medicinal, social, and ritualistic purposes around the world. Socio-linguistic groups throughout China have traditionally used plants as ... -
Variation of Adolescent Snack Food Choices and Preferences along a Continuum of Processing Levels: The Case of Apples
(2019-02)Food processing is used for transforming whole food ingredients into food commodities or edible products. The level of food processing occurs along a continuum from unprocessed to minimally processed, processed, and ... -
Subjective Well-Being in Two Himalayan Communities, Post Road Development
(The Association for Nepal and Himalayan Studies, 2019-07)Although the first road to ever be built into Humla, Nepal is still under construction, it has already spurred numerous sociocultural and economic changes, including an increased integration into the market economy, changing ... -
Pedagogical Perspectives on Counselor Education: An Autoethnographic Experience of Doctoral Student Development
(2019-04)There is minimal literature related to understanding what training factors contribute to the development of qualified counselor educators. Specifically, we wondered if counselor education doctoral students are effectively ... -
Contextualizing CBPR: Key Principles of CBPR meet the Indigenous research context
(2009-06)This paper addresses two questions regarding the use of Community-based Participatory Research (CBPR) approaches with tribal communities. First, how do “gold standard” CBPR principles hold up when applied to Native American ...
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