Abstract
This note presents the results of interviews with twenty-five participants in a fruit and vegetable walking program in Central Appalachia. Individuals joined and used the program for a number of diverse reasons, most commonly with the hope of improving their health. Participants also valued the abundance of food and social opportunities. Overall, participants enjoyed the program and utilized it in ways that funders and evidence-based medicine (EBM) methodologies of biometric and anthropometric data collection are not equipped to capture. This research illus-trates how people within socioeconomically marginalized regions such as Appalachia utilize community-based networks of social and economic relations to exercise agency and maneuver around broader economic and political constraints.
| Original language | English |
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| Pages (from-to) | 107-127 |
| Number of pages | 21 |
| Journal | Journal of Appalachian Studies |
| Volume | 26 |
| Issue number | 1 |
| DOIs | |
| State | Published - 2020 |
Bibliographical note
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Funding
The content of this article is solely the responsibility of the authors and does not necessarily represent the official views of the National Institutes of Health (NIH). Funding for this project was provided by the University of Kentucky (UK) Superfund Research Center (NIEHS/NIH grant P42ES007380), the UK Center for Clinical and Translational Science (NCATS UL1TR001998), the UK Department of Dietetics and Human Nutrition, and the UK College of Agriculture, Food, and Environment Research Activity Award.
| Funders | Funder number |
|---|---|
| UK Department of Dietetics and Human Nutrition | |
| University of Kentucky (UK) Superfund Research Center | |
| National Institutes of Health (NIH) | |
| National Institutes of Health/National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences | P42ES007380 |
| National Institutes of Health/National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences | |
| National Center for Advancing Translational Sciences (NCATS) | UL1TR001998 |
| National Center for Advancing Translational Sciences (NCATS) | |
| Center for Clinical and Translational Science, University of Alabama at Birmingham |
ASJC Scopus subject areas
- General Social Sciences