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The role of Australian local governments in creating a healthy food environment: an analysis of policy documents from six Sydney local governments

Australian and New Zealand Journal of Public Health, 2020
Objective: This paper examines policies from six local governments (LGs) relevant to promoting a healthy food supply and consumer food environment. Methods: We analysed the six LGs’ food and nutrition policies against a framework based on Australian ...
Belinda Reeve, Anne Marie Thow, Phil Baker, Jessica Hresc, Serena May   +4 more
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The Neighborhood Food Environment and the Onset of Child-Hood Obesity: A Retrospective Time-Trend Study in a Mid-sized City in China

Frontiers in Public Health, 2021
Nowadays, obesity and its associated chronic diseases have become a steadily growing public health problem, spreading from the older to younger age groups.
Peiling Zhou, Peiling Zhou, Ruifang Li, Kun Liu   +3 more
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What Do Secondary Schools Need to Create Healthier Canteens? The Development of an Implementation Plan

Frontiers in Public Health, 2021
Introduction: The Netherlands Nutrition Centre developed guidelines to improve the availability and accessibility of healthier food products in Dutch canteens. This paper describes the development of an implementation plan to facilitate implementation of
Irma J. Evenhuis, Ellis L. Vyth, Femke van Nassau, Lydian Veldhuis, Marjan J. Westerman, Jacob C. Seidell, Carry M. Renders   +6 more
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COVID-19 and the National Lockdown: How Food Choice and Dietary Habits Changed for Families in the United Kingdom

Frontiers in Nutrition, 2022
COVID-19 changed the way families in the UK live, with as yet uncertain impacts to food choice and dietary habits. This study sought to explore food-related experiences and changes to behavior of families with children, during the pandemic.
L. Scott, H. Ensaff
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A Typology of Food Environments in the Pacific Region and Their Relationship to Diet Quality in Solomon Islands

Foods, 2021
Extensive literature describes the importance of food environments (FEs) as a driver of food choices and nutrition outcomes; yet existing FE frameworks do not adequately capture the diversity of FEs relevant to the Pacific Region.
Jessica R. Bogard, Neil L. Andrew, Penny Farrell, Mario Herrero, Michael K. Sharp, Jillian Tutuo   +5 more
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Association between neighborhood food environment and dietary diversity score among older people in Beijing, China: A cross-sectional study

Frontiers in Nutrition, 2022
ObjectiveTo examine the association between the neighborhood food environment and dietary diversity score (DDS) among elderly people in China.MethodsParticipants were recruited from 12 communities in Beijing, China, in 2019, using a multi-stage ...
Man Zhang, Man Zhang, Na Zhang, Na Zhang, Mingzhu Zhou, Mingzhu Zhou, Guansheng Ma, Guansheng Ma   +7 more
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Driving Distance and Food Accessibility: A Geospatial Analysis of the Food Environment in the Navajo Nation and Border Towns

Frontiers in Nutrition, 2022
The Navajo Nation, an area home to approximately 173,000 people in the southwest United States, experiences the highest rates of food insecurity in the United States and is classified as a food desert. The present study assessed the accessibility to food
Natalie Bennion, Alisha H. Redelfs, Lori Spruance, Shelby Benally, Chantel Sloan-Aagard   +4 more
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“Some are healthy and others not”: Characterization of vended food products by Accra-based food retailers

Frontiers in Public Health, 2022
Background and objectivesIncreasing the availability of healthy foods within food retail outlets can improve consumers' food environments. Such actions or inactions by food retailers may affect people's food purchasing and consumption behavior.
Silver Nanema, Akosua Adjei, Gideon Senyo Amevinya, Amos Laar   +3 more
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Obesity and the food environment: income and ethnicity differences among people with diabetes: the Diabetes Study of Northern California (DISTANCE). [PDF]

, 2013
ObjectiveIt is unknown whether any association between neighborhood food environment and obesity varies according to individual income and/or race/ethnicity.
Adler, Nancy, Jones-Smith, Jessica C, Karter, Andrew J, Kelly, Maggi, Kersten, Ellen, Laraia, Barbara A, Moffet, Howard H, Schillinger, Dean, Warton, E Margaret   +8 more
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KIMEHS—Proposal of an Index for Qualitative Evaluation of Children’s Menus—A Pilot Study

Foods, 2020
Considering the importance of the food environments for health promotion, and the lack of simple, easy to use, low-cost measures of the quality of meals, the authors developed a qualitative menu index (KIMEHS—Kids’ Menu Healthy Score), tailored to ...
Ada Rocha, Claudia Viegas
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