Diet and Food and Nutrition Insecurity and Cardiometabolic Disease.

ABSTRACT: Poor nutrition is the leading cause of poor health, health care spending, and lost productivity in the United States and globally, which acts through cardiometabolic diseases as precursors to cardiovascular disease, cancer, and other conditions. There is great interest in how the social determinants of health (the conditions in which people are born, live, work, develop, and age) impact cardiometabolic disease. Food insecurity is an example of a powerful social determinant of health that impacts health outcomes. Nutrition insecurity, a distinct but related concept to food insecurity, is a direct determinant of health. In this article, we provide an overview of how diet in early life relates to cardiometabolic disease and then continue to focus on the concepts of food insecurity and nutriti

SUBMITTER: Brandt EJ 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10882643 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature