Our Environment Affects Your Nutrition!

Research corroborates this — children who plant and harvest their own fruits and vegetables are more likely to eat them. For instance, what are the dietary ramifications for an individual who has high self-efficacy for increasing fruit intake, but who lives and works in a neighborhood with no access to fresh fruit? What about an individual who has low self-efficacy but lives in close proximity to several fresh fruit stores and markets? Healthful foods, such as low-fat dairy products, fruits and vegetables, are less available and poorer quality in minority and lower-income areas. Three studies have documented that disadvantaged neighborhoods have a proportionally lower availability of healthful options and produce of poorer quality than do more affluent and white neighborhoods.A multidisciplinary team is examining how federal, state, and local policies influence the built environment, which in turn influences residents’ accessibility to places to be active and to purchase fresh fruits and vegetables. The built environment includes man made physical structures and transportation systems and features such as land use and development, urban design, and visual surroundings. By promoting fruit trees, such as mango, avocado and citrus, and bamboo, experience shows that in time communities start to protect their trees because […]

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