Heterogeneous relationships between the health-related lifestyle and risk of overweight and obesity in urbanizing China

Wang, Xiaoquan; Yin, Chaoying; Shao, Chunfu

doi:10.1016/j.jth.2021.101023

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“…Models 1–4 show that healthy lifestyles are negatively associated with the outcome variables, indicating that healthy lifestyles lower the incidence of diet-related diseases. This result confirms those of the existing literature finding that healthy lifestyles exert a direct impact on health [ 40 , 41 ]. The coefficients of the interaction terms between mRFEI and HLS in both Model 1 and Model 3 are significantly negative, which means that healthy lifestyles strengthen the negative effect of healthy food accessibility on both the risk of suffering from diet-related diseases and the number of diseases suffered.…”

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“…Our finding is consistent with previous studies that reported a significant association between lifestyle factors and health outcomes. For example, based on survey data of 8266 individuals across China, Wang et al (2021) [ 40 ] showed that most health-related lifestyle variables influenced individuals’ risks of overweight and obesity in urban areas; Liu et al (2021) [ 42 ] found that suffering from chronic diseases was positively associated with unhealthy lifestyles. The significant moderating role of healthy lifestyles on the relationship between urban food environment and diet-related diseases confirms that a combination of objective food environment improvement and healthy lifestyle encouragement would be a most effective strategy to realize healthy aging.…”

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Unraveling the Role of Objective Food Environment in Chinese Elderly’s Diet-Related Diseases Epidemic: Considering Both Healthy Food Accessibility and Diversity

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Luo

Zhang

et al. 2022

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The essential role of the objective food environment in achieving healthy aging has been widely recognized worldwide. However, the existing empirical evidence is mostly based on Western cases, and how the objective food environment associates with health outcomes among Chinese elderly remains poorly understood. By merging nationally representative micro survey data with Baidu-based spatial data on the location of food outlets, this study develops accessibility and diversity indicators to explore the relationship between food environment and diet-related diseases among Chinese elderly and investigates how healthy lifestyles moderate this relationship. The results show that improvement in healthy food accessibility and diversity decreases both the probability and the number of diet-related diseases that the elderly suffer. Having more healthy lifestyle factors is associated with a lower risk of suffering from diet-related diseases and strengthens the negative effect of healthy food environment on suffered diet-related diseases. Heterogeneity effect analysis suggests that the relationship between objective food environment and diet-related diseases differs by city scale and income level. The findings of this study shed light on designing tailor-made policies for non-Western countries to promote healthy aging.

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Unraveling the Role of Objective Food Environment in Chinese Elderly’s Diet-Related Diseases Epidemic: Considering Both Healthy Food Accessibility and Diversity

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Luo

Zhang

et al. 2022

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“…This finding is largely consistent with existing studies, partly due to genetic factors and partly because parents can influence their children's diet and lifestyle habits, and obese parents tend to pass on their poor lifestyle habits implicitly to their children ( Kosti et al, 2008 ). Compared to rural residents, urban residents are more likely to be obese because of their higher exposure to processed foods, higher caloric diets, and more mobility devices ( Wang, Yin, & Shao, 2021 ). This differs from the study by Ford and Dzewaltowski (2008) , who concluded that low-quality retail food environments in poor areas are likely to lead to an increased risk of obesity among socioeconomically disadvantaged groups.…”

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The effect of retirement on obesity in women: Evidence from China

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Tao²,

Cheng³

et al. 2023

SSM - Population Health

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“…e Chinese government formally put forward the goal of 'carbon neutralization and carbon compliance' at the 75 th United Nations General Assembly in 2020 and strongly developed a low-carbon economy to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. Among many greenhouse gas emission pathways, transportation accounts for more than 20% of the total greenhouse gas emission [2][3][4][5], and the carbon emission of ground transportation is much higher than that of air transportation [6][7][8][9].…”

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Study on Influencing Factors of the Duration of Residential Leisure Travel to Urban Parks

Yan

Dong

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Journal of Advanced Transportation

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With the improvement of living standards, more and more residents in China choose short leisure travel at weekends. This study aims to model the leisure travel duration to investigate the relationship between travel time and residents’ factors, which can provide guidance for the development of urban parks and improve the structure of transportation modes to promote low-carbon travel modes. The accelerated hazard model is applied to establish the model equation between travel time and various factors, to obtain the differences between weekend travel time in scenic spots and personal characteristics such as residents’ playing time and travel mode choice. First, an analysis of variance was performed on the valid data which have been collected. Then, the Kaplan–Meier test proved that weekend activity types tend to follow different survival functions. Finally, this study established the lifespan regression equation of the travel time, and we found that the best fit is the Log-normal distribution. This study shows clearly that accelerated hazard models based on fixed parameters are better at evaluating the attractiveness of urban parks, and they can also get feedback travel characteristics of primary residents. So, we can build a lifespan analysis-based model for the travel time of urban residents, to help plan the urban parks. The result of this study can be used for predicting the flow of different travel modes at urban parks in cities, which can be helpful for regional traffic organization such as regional traffic flow guidance and signal timing.

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Heterogeneous relationships between the health-related lifestyle and risk of overweight and obesity in urbanizing China

Cited by 14 publications

References 52 publications

Unraveling the Role of Objective Food Environment in Chinese Elderly’s Diet-Related Diseases Epidemic: Considering Both Healthy Food Accessibility and Diversity

Unraveling the Role of Objective Food Environment in Chinese Elderly’s Diet-Related Diseases Epidemic: Considering Both Healthy Food Accessibility and Diversity

The effect of retirement on obesity in women: Evidence from China

Study on Influencing Factors of the Duration of Residential Leisure Travel to Urban Parks

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