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Extending Cancer Prevention to Improve Fruit and Vegetable Consumption

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Consuming a diet that is rich in fruits and vegetables is critical for preventing cancer and cancer-related disparities. Food systems approaches that increase spatial-temporal, economic, and social access to fruits and vegetables may ultimately result in improved consumption patterns among Americans. Engaging the triad of Cooperative Extension Services, public health systems, and community health centers may yield maximal public health benefits from food systems interventions. These entities have a mutual interest in promoting health equity and community and economic vitality that provides common ground to (a) implement solutions through the dissemination of evidence-based programs and (b) share resources to foster grassroots support for sustained change. Working together, these systems have an unprecedented opportunity to build on their common ground to implement, evaluate, and disseminate evidence-based food systems interventions in communities and with populations experiencing disparate risk for cancer and cancer-related diseases.

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This manuscript was supported by the South Carolina Cancer Prevention and Control Research Network under Cooperative Agreement Number 3U48DP001936 (Freedman, Friedman, Hébert) and the Texas A & M University, Cancer Prevention and Control Research Network under Cooperative Agreement Number U48DP001924 (Peña-Purcell, Ory) from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (Prevention Research Centers) and the National Cancer Institute. It was also supported by the Case Western Reserve University Prevention Research Center for Healthy Neighborhoods under Cooperative Agreement Number U48DP001930 (Freedman, Flocke) and by an Established Investigator Award in Cancer Prevention and Control from the Cancer Training Branch of the National Cancer Institute (K05 CA136975, Hébert). Findings and conclusions in this manuscript are those of the authors and do not necessarily represent the official position of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention nor the National Cancer Institute.

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  1. Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Social Work, Case Western Reserve University, 11000 Cedar Avenue, Room 443, Cleveland, OH, 44106, USA

    Darcy A. Freedman

  2. Prevention Research Center for Healthy Neighborhoods, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH, USA

    Darcy A. Freedman & Susan Flocke

  3. Department of Family and Consumer Science, Texas A & M University AgriLife Extension Service, College Station, TX, USA

    Ninfa Peña-Purcell

  4. Department of Health Promotion, Education, and Behavior, University of South Carolina, Columbia, SC, USA

    Daniela B. Friedman

  5. Statewide Cancer Prevention and Control Program, University of South Carolina, Columbia, SC, USA

    Daniela B. Friedman & James R. Hébert

  6. Department of Health Promotion and Community Health Sciences, Texas A & M University, College Station, TX, USA

    Marcia Ory

  7. Department of Family Medicine, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH, USA

    Susan Flocke

  8. College of Food, Agriculture and Environmental Sciences, The Ohio State University Extension, Columbus, OH, USA

    Marie T. Barni

  9. Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, University of South Carolina, Columbia, SC, USA

    James R. Hébert

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Freedman, D.A., Peña-Purcell, N., Friedman, D.B. et al. Extending Cancer Prevention to Improve Fruit and Vegetable Consumption. J Canc Educ 29, 790–795 (2014). https://doi.org/10.1007/s13187-014-0656-4

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