Measuring the Food Environment: Shelf Space of Fruits, Vegetables, and Snack Foods in Stores

Farley, Thomas A.; Rice, Janet C.; Bodor, J. Nicholas; Cohen, Deborah A.; Bluthenthal, Ricky N.; Rose, Donald

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“…Such associations were predicted since supermarkets are known to have a greater availability of healthy foods at lower prices, while convenience stores and fast food establishments are known to offer mostly inexpensive, energy-dense foods. 23,24 …”

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The Association between Obesity and Urban Food Environments

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Several studies have examined associations between the food retail environment and obesity, though virtually no work has been done in the urban South, where obesity rates are among the highest in the country. This study assessed associations between access to food retail outlets and obesity in New Orleans. Data on individual characteristics and body weight were collected by telephone interviews from a random sample of adults (N=3,925) living in New Orleans in [2004][2005]. The neighborhood of each individual was geo-mapped by creating a 2-km buffer around the center point of the census tract in which they lived. Food retailer counts were created by summing the total number of each food store type and fast food establishment within this 2-km neighborhood. Hierarchical linear models assessed associations between access to food retailers and obesity status. After adjusting for individual characteristics, each additional supermarket in a respondent's neighborhood was associated with a reduced odds for obesity (OR 0.93, 95% CI 0.88-0.99). Fast food restaurant (OR 1.01, 95% CI 1.00-1.02) and convenience store (OR 1.01, 95% CI 1.00-1.02) access were each predictive of greater obesity odds. An individual's access to food stores and fast food restaurants may play a part in determining weight status. Future studies with longitudinal and experimental designs are needed to test whether modifications in the food environment may assist in the prevention of obesity.

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“…Given this fact, we further evaluated out-of-home food environments with consideration also for food nutrition and healthfulness [69,70] and restaurant sizes [29]. However, the combined information on location, size, and nutrition still was not sufficient for prediction of the surveyed children's weight status (Figures 2 and 3).…”

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Understanding Out-of-Home Food Environment, Family Restaurant Choices, and Childhood Obesity with an Agent-Based Huff Model

Peng

2018

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Out-of-home eating plays an increasingly important role in the American diet and weight. This research studied out-of-home food environment and restaurant choices in one rural county of eastern Alabama, United States, and examined the impact on African American children's weight status. A mixed methods approach was used in this study. Questionnaires were collected for 613 African American children at all four public elementary schools in the county. The healthfulness of restaurants was assessed with the Nutrition Environment Measures Survey-Restaurant (NEMS-R). An agent-based model integrated with Huff's model was developed in order to examine family dining patterns with consideration for individual and community socio-demographics; restaurant location, size, and healthfulness; and the spatial dynamics between consumers and food retailers. We found that this model performed well, as evidenced by validation with the 2013-2014 National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (p, 0.54-0.96), and by comparison with the original Huff model. Frequency of dining at low-quality full-service restaurants (r = 0.084; p <0.05) was associated with rural children's body mass index (BMI) percentile. These findings may increase public awareness of the importance of family restaurant choices as well as the potential unhealthiness of full-service restaurants.

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“…Most likely as a product of marketing and availability, children in lower SES neighbourhoods can more readily identify the logos of multinational fast-food outlets [98]. On the other hand, the availability of healthy dietary choices may be subpar, more expensive, or shelved in such a way as to be subordinate to energy-dense, low nutrient foods [99][100][101][102][103]. Such research demonstrates that the connections between socioeconomic inequalities, fast-food, and NCDs [104,105] (and it its most extreme end, mortality [106]) are not on a level playing field.…”

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Down to Earth: Planetary Health and Biophilosophy in the Symbiocene Epoch

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Advances in science have illuminated the role of the "ecological theatre"-the total living environment-in human health. In a rapidly changing epoch known as the anthropocene, microbiome science is identifying functional connections between all life, both seen and unseen. Rather than an easily identifiable era appearing in rock strata, the anthropocene is more of a diagnostic syndrome, a set of signs and symptoms including climate change, gross biodiversity losses, environmental degradation, and an epidemic of non-communicable diseases. The syndrome is intertwined with politics, economics, public policies (or lack thereof), social values, and a global push of calorie-dense, nutrient-poor foods and beverages. The healing of anthropocene syndrome is the grand challenge of humanity. Expanding on the "Mars Can Wait" argument of Geoffrey Goodman, et al., we focus on the urgency with which health promotion must be prioritized here on Earth. We revive Jonas Salk's biophilosophy: a call to action for collaboration between biologists, humanists, and scholars of all stripes. From this perspective, lines of distinction between personal, public, and planetary health are removed. We also describe the symbiocene: the possibility of a new epoch in which mutualism will be considered imperative. If society asks the right questions, a transition to the symbiocene is possible; the "stratigraphical" mark of the new epoch will be found in a repudiation of authoritarianism, and the promotion of empathy, cultural competency, emotional intelligence, and commitment to optimism, tolerance, and the facilitation of the WHO definition of health, i.e., the fulfillment of human potential.

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Measuring the Food Environment: Shelf Space of Fruits, Vegetables, and Snack Foods in Stores

Cited by 186 publications

References 32 publications

The Association between Obesity and Urban Food Environments

The Association between Obesity and Urban Food Environments

Understanding Out-of-Home Food Environment, Family Restaurant Choices, and Childhood Obesity with an Agent-Based Huff Model

Down to Earth: Planetary Health and Biophilosophy in the Symbiocene Epoch

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