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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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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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Review of "A recipe for gentrification: Food, power, and resistance in the city"

Canadian Food Studies, 2021
The book, A Recipe for Gentrification: Food, Power, and Resistance in the City is a well-crafted and useful contribution to the food environment, food access and food justice literatures.
Rachel Engler-Stringer
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Environmental Justice and the Food Environment in Prince George’s County, Maryland: Assessment of Three Communities

Frontiers in Built Environment, 2019
Lack of access to a health-promoting food environment can lead to poor health outcomes including obesity which is a problem for African-Americans in Prince George's County, Maryland.
Lucy Kavi, Jair Sinisterra, Coline Bodenreider, Meslech Bellay, Kamran Ayub, Vivek Ravichandran, Jan-Michael Archer, Sacoby Wilson   +7 more
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