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Regional food prices and dietary practices among participants of the USDA EFNEP program
Author(s) -
Luick Bret,
Greenberg Joshua,
Bersamin Andrea
Publication year - 2013
Publication title -
the faseb journal
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.709
H-Index - 277
eISSN - 1530-6860
pISSN - 0892-6638
DOI - 10.1096/fasebj.27.1_supplement.625.14
Subject(s) - demographics , food group , environmental health , nutrition education , food prices , medicine , food security , geography , gerontology , demography , agriculture , archaeology , sociology
We investigated the relationship between food prices and demographics based on dietary intake data from the USDA EFNEP program. National EFNEP diet and demographic data for year 2011 were merged with the USDA FNDDS3, MyPyramid2 and food price data bases. Categories of food price were inflation adjusted. Mapping models were built to portray dietary practices, costs and demographics distributions. Diets differed by pre‐and post‐training recall, by FNDDS category of foods consumed; all by region and other demographic variables. Diet patterns and food costs were reflective of the local practices of program participants. Evaluation of dietary practices by demographic and cost variables appear to be valuable tools for localizing nutrition education messages.