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Appendix G: Public Comments
Pages 231-234

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... The complete set of unedited comments was forwarded to the USDA Food and Nutrition Service for its consideration. COMMENTER A Maria Melchior Inserm, Villejuif, Paris Suggestions for future research: • There is need for evidence on long-term effects of food insecurity, ideally from birth cohort studies that follow individuals from child hood to adulthood.
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... • Interventions and policies that aim to decrease hunger and food insecurity should be evaluated over the long-term, to test whether they contribute to improvements in health and decreases in health inequalities. COMMENTER B Elle Alexander Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health and Global Health Policy Intern, PepsiCo As a Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health student and PepsiCo Global Health Policy intern in attendance at the Institute of Medicine Workshop on Food Insecurity and Obesity, I appreciated the presentations describing the current state of the research and the suggested solutions for food insecurity and obesity, but noticed the lack of discussion of several important factors.
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... COMMENTER C Elizabeth Metallinos-Katsaras Simmons College, Boston, Massachusetts Comments on the association between food insecurity and obesity The association between food insecurity and childhood overweight and obesity is a complex one that, as noted by the conference participants, requires more studies using a longitudinal design. On day 1 of this meeting, Craig Gundersen reviewed the evidence linking food insecurity and obesity in children, and he declared that there was no association.
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... 2008. Socio-economic, behavioural and en vironmental factors predicted body weights and household food insecurity scores in the Early Childhood Longitudinal Study-Kindergarten.
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