Low-Fat Milk and High-Fiber Bread Availability in Food Stores in Urban and Rural Communities

Hosler, Akiko S.; Varadarajulu, Deepa; Ronsani, Adrienne; Fredrick, Bonnie; Fisher, Brian

doi:10.1097/00124784-200611000-00009

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“…This similarity may reflect the influence of such environmental factors as food availability and affordability on youths' eating behaviors. Previous research has shown that low-fat food alternatives and healthier types of foods are less available and relatively more expensive in poor, minority communities (Hosler, Varadarajulu, Ronsani, Fredrick, & Fisher, 2006;Donkin, Dowler, Stevenson, & Turner, 2000;Jetter & Cassidy, 2006). Youths aged 11 years had lower fat intake than did youths aged 12 through 14 years.…”

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Dietary fat intake among urban, African American adolescents

2008

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This study examined commonly consumed high-fat food sources to estimate dietary fat intake among 314 urban, African American adolescents (mean age (SD) = 12.57 (.98) years; 66% female; 91% African American non-Hispanic; and 9% African American Hispanic). Youths' fat intake was measured using the Block Fat Screener. Most (77%) participants had diets very high in fat (i.e., 40% to 50% of energy). Mean frequencies of consumption revealed youths' preferences for the following high-fat food items: corn chips, potato chips, popcorn, and crackers; fried chicken; and doughnuts, pastries, cake, and cookies. Total fat intake differed based on youths' age. Urban, African American adolescents can benefit from intervention to lower their fat intake. Programs that target and address the food preferences and eating habits of this population are clearly needed.

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Dietary fat intake among urban, African American adolescents

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“…The minority neighbourhood has significantly higher (P < 0·01) proportions of individuals living below the federal poverty line (36 % v. 24 %), female-headed households with a minor child (22 % v. 8 %) and households without a vehicle (43 % v. 30 %) compared with the mixed neighbourhood. Earlier, the research team reported a disproportionately low availability of low-fat milk, high-fibre bread and fresh produce in the minority neighbourhood using baseline cross-sectional data (21,22) .…”

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“…This tool was originally created in 2003 and has been used in food environment studies in urban, rural and ethnic communities (21,22,27,28) .…”

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Trends of fruit and vegetable availability in neighbourhoods in Albany, NY, USA, 2003–2012

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Kammer

2014

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Objective: To investigate a 9-year trend of fresh fruit and vegetable availability and factors associated with the net availability change in two contrasting neighbourhoods. Design: Longitudinal design. Data were collected in 2003, 2009 and 2012 through in-store observations. Fresh fruit and vegetable availability was presented by weight-adjusted counts of stores having designated varieties per 10 000 population. Setting: A low-income minority neighbourhood and an adjacent middle-income racially mixed neighbourhood in Albany, NY, USA. These neighbourhoods became sites of fresh produce interventions after baseline data were collected. Subjects: A total of 111, 128 and 146 eligible food stores in respective years. Results: Fresh fruit availability (two or more varieties) increased in both neighbourhoods. Inventory expansion of existing stores and the convenience store intervention contributed to the significant increase (P for trend = 0·04) of fresh fruit availability in the minority neighbourhood. Although not statistically significant (P > 0·05), the availability of two or more dark-coloured fresh vegetables also increased in the mixed neighbourhood, but declined slightly in the minority neighbourhood. The secular (non-intervention) fresh vegetable availability rate ratio by neighbourhood reached 3·0 in 2012 (P < 0·01). The net decline of fresh vegetable availability in the minority neighbourhood was primarily attributed to inventory reduction of existing stores. Conclusions: Longitudinal observations revealed narrowed neighbourhood disparities of fresh fruit availability and widened gaps of fresh vegetable availability. Inventory shifts of existing stores impacted the net availability change more profoundly than store opening or closing in the minority neighbourhood. Findings support increasing the programme capacity of the convenience store intervention to address the fresh vegetable disparity.

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“…These studies looked mainly at indicator foods (e.g., specific vegetables, wholegrain products, or low-fat dairy items as markers of healthful food inventory), 50,[59][60][61][62][63][64][65][66][67][68][69][70][71][72] or used food checklists or indices. [56][57][58][73][74][75][76][77][78][79][80][81][82][83][84][85] However, no prior studies have looked more comprehensively at food offerings, and none have provided a detailed description of snack food inventories in corner stores despite evidence that children purchase and consume unhealthy snacks from corner stores, 55,87 and corner stores provide a substantial number of total daily calories for young people.…”

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Storing Empty Calories and Chronic Disease Risk: Snack-Food Products, Nutritive Content, and Manufacturers in Philadelphia Corner Stores

2010

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Corner stores are part of the urban food environment that may contribute to obesity and diet-related diseases, particularly for low-income and minority children. The snack foods available in corner stores may be a particularly important aspect of an urban child's food environment. Unfortunately, there is little data on exactly what snack foods corner stores stock, or where these foods come from. We evaluated snack foods in 17 Philadelphia corner stores, located in three ethnically distinct, low-income school neighborhoods. We recorded the manufacturer, calories, fat, sugar, and sodium for all snack items, excluding candy and prepared foods. We then compared the nutritive content of assessed snack items to established dietary recommendations and a school nutrition standard. In total, stores stocked 452 kinds of snacks, with only 15% of items common between all three neighborhoods. Total and unique snacks and snack food manufacturers varied by neighborhood, but distributions in snack type varied negligibly: overall, there were no fruit snacks, no vegetable snacks, and only 3.6% of all snacks (by liberal definition) were whole grain. The remainder (96.4% of snacks) was highly processed foods. Five of 65 manufacturers supplied 73.4% of all kinds of snack foods. Depending on serving size definition, 80.0-91.5% of snack foods were "unhealthy" (by the school nutrition standard), including seven of 11 wholegrain products. A single snack item could supply 6-14% of a day's recommended calories, fat, sugar, and sodium on average (or 56-169% at the extreme) for a "typical" child. We conclude that corner store snack food inventories are almost entirely unhealthful, and we discuss possible implications and next steps for research and intervention.

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Low-Fat Milk and High-Fiber Bread Availability in Food Stores in Urban and Rural Communities

Cited by 45 publications

References 20 publications

Dietary fat intake among urban, African American adolescents

Dietary fat intake among urban, African American adolescents

Trends of fruit and vegetable availability in neighbourhoods in Albany, NY, USA, 2003–2012

Storing Empty Calories and Chronic Disease Risk: Snack-Food Products, Nutritive Content, and Manufacturers in Philadelphia Corner Stores

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