Commentary: Assessing food insecurity in Trinidad and Tobago.
Open Access
- 1 August 2003
- journal article
- editorial
- Published by Oxford University Press (OUP) in International Journal of Epidemiology
- Vol. 32 (4) , 516-7
- https://doi.org/10.1093/ije/dyg218
Abstract
Gulliford and colleagues report in this issue of the International Journal of Epidemiology on a study in Trinidad and Tobago that investigated whether household food insecurity was associated with obesity in this middle-income country.1 They found that food insecurity was associated with underweight but not with obesity. Food insecurity was also associated with decreased consumption of fruits and vegetables, a result previously reported in several studies, and with physical limitations, a result previously reported for elders in the US.2Keywords
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