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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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Priority research questions for the UK food system [PDF]

, 2013
The rise of food security up international political, societal and academic agendas has led to increasing interest in novel means of improving primary food production and reducing waste.
Ingram, John S I, Tassou, S., Benton, Tim G., Miller, Anne, Dolan, Catherine S, Sutherland, William J, Timothy Aldred, Knox, J. W., Kaiser, M.J., Norton, Ian T., Macdiarmid, Jennie I, Fitzpatrick, JL, Quested, TE, Murray, C, Kennard, R., Crossley, Daniel S., McGonigle, D.F., Macdiarmid, Jennie I., Terry, L. A., Murray, Calum, Finney, K. J., Ian T. Norton, Brocklehurst, Tim F., Leon A. Terry, Judith Buttriss, Millar, S.J., Brocklehurst, Tim F, Mead, Angela, Terry, Leon A, John Casey, William Vorley, Charles S. Bestwick, Benton, T.G., Crossley, D.S., Kuyk, A., Jennie I. Macdiarmid, Buttriss, J, Kuyk, A, Wright, HL, Bows-Larkin, A., Crossley, D. S., Martindale, Wayne, Brocklehurst, T. F., Garrett, D.A., Kaiser, Michel J.; id_orcid, Stephen Parry, Kennard, Robert, Foster, Lucy, Houlston, Eleanor J, Fowler, M., Dolan, C.S., Buttriss, Judith, Mathers, J. C., Daniel S. Crossley, Benton, Tim G, Mead, A., Alice Bows-Larkin, Kaiser, Michel J, Mathers, J.C., David Barling, Catherine S. Dolan, Houlston, EJ, McGonigle, Daniel F., Finney, Karen J, Mead, A, Marilena Pollicino, Garrett, David A., Murray, C., Aldred, Timothy, Michel J. Kaiser, Ingram, J. S. I., Norton, I.T., Hugh L. Wright, Millar, Samuel J, Andrew Kuyk, Edwards, R., Casey, J, Linter, B.R., Fowler, M, van de Graaf, P., Vorley, W., Bows-Larkin, Alice; id_orcid, Aldred, T., Paul M. Berryman, Tiffin, R, Parry, S., Macdiarmid, JI, Foster, L, Andrew Godley, Calum Murray, Martindale, W., Fitzpatrick, J.L., Pollicino, Marilena, Berryman, Paul M, Robert Edwards, Collins, H, Finney, KJ, Quested, Thomas E, McGonigle, DF, Griffiths, W., Martindale, W, Garrett, David A, Dowler, Elizabeth, Fowler, Mark, Linter, Bruce R, Angela Mead, Fitzpatrick, J. L., Edwards, Robert, Norton, I. T., Millar, Samuel J., Thomas E. Quested, Robert Kennard, Bestwick, C. S., Vorley, William, Ingram, JSI, Tim G. Benton, Barling, D., Sutherland, William J., Dolan, Catherine S., Brocklehurst, T.F., Godfrey, J.E., McGonigle, Daniel F, Tassou, S, Jim E. Godfrey, Linter, B. R., Macdiarmid, J.I., William J. Sutherland, Terry, L.A., Godley, A., Kaiser, Michel J., Casey, J., Karen J. Finney, Julie L. Fitzpatrick, Wright, Hugh, Wright, H.L., Vorley, W, Aldred, Tim, Andrew Westby, Mathers, JC, Knox, Jerry W, Mathers, John C, Miller, A., Godley, A, Casey, John, Ingram, John S. I., Berryman, P.M., et, al, Finney, Karen J., Dowler, E, Fitzpatrick, Julie L, Garrett, DA, Graaf, P, Wright, H. L., Godfrey, Jim E, Elizabeth Dowler, David A. Garrett, Bestwick, Charles S, Bows-Larkin, Alice, McGonigle, D. F., Westby, A, Crossley, Daniel S, Houlston, E.J., Eleanor J. Houlston, Dowler, E., Berryman, PM, Finney, K.J., Crossley, DS, Kennard, R, Macdiarmid, J. I., Benton, T., Quested, T.E., John S. I. Ingram, Benton, TG, Brocklehurst, TF, Foster, L., Tiffin, R., Norton, Ian T, Dolan, CS, Godley, Andrew, Pollicino, M., Griffiths, William, William Griffiths, Barling, David, Linter, BR, Pieter van de Graaf, Parry, S, Ingram, J.S.I., Wright, Hugh L, Aldred, T, van de Graaf, Pieter, Sutherland, WJ, Lucy Foster, Westby, A., Bows-Larkin, A, Knox, J.W., Norton, IT, Millar, SJ, Knox, JW, Tim F. Brocklehurst, Graaf, P., Knox, Jerry W., Kuyk, Andrew, Tassou, Savvas, Dolan, C. S., Collins, Hannah, Mathers, John C., Wright, Hugh L., Collins, H., Sutherland, W. J., Pieter, van de Graaf, Samuel J. Millar, Dolan, Catherine, Godfrey, Jim E., Bestwick, CS, Houlston, Eleanor J., Kaiser, MJ, Bestwick, C.S., Daniel F. McGonigle, Ingram, John S.I., Berryman, Paul M., John C. Mathers, Anne Miller, Parry, Stephen, Sutherland, W.J., Buttriss, J., Berryman, P. M., Linter, Bruce R., Quested, Thomas E., Savvas Tassou, Godfrey, JE, Richard Tiffin, Wayne Martindale, Miller, A, Terry, LA, Fitzpatrick, Julie L., Barling, D, Griffiths, W, Edwards, R, Millar, S. J., Tiffin, Richard, Jerry W. Knox, Godley, Andrew R., Terry, Leon A., Pollicino, M, Hannah Collins, Bruce R. Linter, Ingram, John, Bestwick, Charles S., Mark Fowler, Westby, Andrew   +249 more
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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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True Cost Accounting for Food [PDF]

, 2021
This book explains how True Cost Accounting is an effective tool we can use to address the pervasive imbalance in our food system. Calls are coming from all quarters that the food system is broken and needs a radical transformation.

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The importance of food systems and the environment for nutrition [PDF]

The American Journal of Clinical Nutrition, 2021
Global and local food system transformation is necessary in order to ensure the delivery of healthy, safe, and nutritious foods in both sustainable and equitable ways. Food systems are complex entities that affect diets, human health, and a range of other outcomes including economic growth, natural resource and environmental resiliency, and ...
Fanzo, Jessica, Bellows, Alexandra L, Spiker, Marie L, Thorne-Lyman, Andrew L, Bloem, Martin W   +4 more
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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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Creating ‘obesogenic realities’; do our methodological choices make a difference when measuring the food environment? [PDF]

, 2013
Background The use of Geographical Information Systems (GIS) to objectively measure ‘obesogenic’ food environment (foodscape) exposure has become common-place. This increase in usage has coincided with the development of a methodologically heterogeneous
Burgoine, Thomas, Burgoine, T, Lake, Amelia, Lake, AA, Lake, Amelia A., Lake, Amelia ; id_orcid, Alvanides, S, Alvanides, Seraphim   +7 more
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Does the local food environment around schools affect diet? Longitudinal associations in adolescents attending secondary schools in East London. [PDF]

, 2013
BACKGROUND: The local retail food environment around schools may act as a potential risk factor for adolescent diet. However, international research utilising cross-sectional designs to investigate associations between retail food outlet proximity to ...
Cummins Steven, Charlotte Clark, Smith, D, Smith, Dianna, Cummins, Steven, Clark, Charlotte, Clark Charlotte, Stansfeld Stephen, Stansfeld, S, Clark, C, Cummins, S, Stephen Stansfeld, Stansfeld, Stephen, Smith Dianna, Steven Cummins, Dianna Smith   +15 more
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Commentary – Food for thought on food environments in Canada [PDF]

Health Promotion and Chronic Disease Prevention in Canada, 2017
As a whole, the environments in which we make our food choices do not typically reinforce and support healthy behaviours. The Canadian food environment in which we live, work, and play is failing to provide and promote healthy diets; as a result, Canada has seen high and continually rising rates of overweight and obesity and diet-related non ...
Lana Vanderlee, Mary R. L’Abbé
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