ArticleCanadian journal of public health = Revue canadienne de sante publique2012
Associations between children's diets and features of their residential and school neighbourhood food environments.
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34 citing papers in PubMed, 5 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.
- Food environment research in Canada: a rapid review of methodologies and measures deployed between 2010 and 2021.The international journal of behavioral nutrition and physical activity · 2024Pooled it
- Fast-food restaurant, unhealthy eating, and childhood obesity: A systematic review and meta-analysis.Obesity reviews : an official journal of the International Association for the Study of Obesity · 2021Pooled it
- Association between access to convenience stores and childhood obesity: A systematic review.Obesity reviews : an official journal of the International Association for the Study of Obesity · 2021Pooled it
- Neighbourhood retail food outlet access, diet and body mass index in Canada: a systematic review.Health promotion and chronic disease prevention in Canada : research, policy and practice · 2019Pooled it
- A systematic review of neighbourhood economic context on child obesity and obesity-related behaviours.Obesity reviews : an official journal of the International Association for the Study of Obesity · 2019Pooled it
- A Systematic Review of the Bibliometrics and Methodological Research Used on Studies Focused on School Neighborhood Built Environment and the Physical Health of Children and Adolescents.Children (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025Review
- Feeling safe: a critical look at the effect of neighborhood safety features and perceptions on childhood symptoms of depression.BMC pediatrics · 2024Article
- Mediators of parental educational differences in the intake of carbonated sugar-sweetened soft drinks among adolescents, and the moderating role of neighbourhood income.Nutrition journal · 2023Article
- Enhancing the Retail Food Environment Index (RFEI) with Neighborhood Commuting Patterns: A Hybrid Human-Environment Measure.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2022Article
- Unhealthy food options in the school environment are associated with diet quality and body weights of elementary school children in Canada.Public health nutrition · 2021Article
- Field Validation of Commercially Available Food Retailer Data in the Netherlands.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2020Article
- Childhood obesity and the associated roles of neighborhood and biologic stress.Preventive medicine reports · 2019Article
- Associations between home and school neighbourhood food environments and adolescents' fast-food and sugar-sweetened beverage intakes: findings from the Olympic Regeneration in East London (ORiEL) Study.Public health nutrition · 2018Article
- Obesity Prevention: Strategies and Challenges in Latin America.Current obesity reports · 2018Review
- Association of neighbourhood food availability with the consumption of processed and ultra-processed food products by children in a city of Brazil: a multilevel analysis.Public health nutrition · 2018Article
- Greater access to healthy food outlets in the home and school environment is associated with better dietary quality in young children.Public health nutrition · 2017Observational
- Food and Beverage Marketing in Schools: A Review of the Evidence.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2017Review
- Nutrition status of children in Latin America.Obesity reviews : an official journal of the International Association for the Study of Obesity · 2017Review
- School food environments associated with adiposity in Canadian children.International journal of obesity (2005) · 2017Article
- Beyond Food Access: The Impact of Parent-, Home-, and Neighborhood-Level Factors on Children's Diets.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2017Article
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Abstract
objectivesAmong studies of the built environment, few examine neighbourhood food environments in relation to children's diets. We examined the associations of residential and school neighbourhood access to different types of food establishments with children's diets.
methodsData from QUALITY (Quebec Adipose and Lifestyle Investigation in Youth), an ongoing study on the natural history of obesity in 630 Quebec youth aged 8-10 years with a parental history of obesity, were analyzed (n=512). Three 24-hour diet recalls were used to assess dietary intake of vegetables and fruit, and sugar-sweetened beverages. Questionnaires were used to determine the frequency of eating/snacking out and consumption of delivered/take-out foods. We characterized residential and school neighbourhood food environments by means of a Geographic Information System. Variables included distance to the nearest supermarket, fast-food restaurant and convenience store, and densities of each food establishment type computed for 1 km network buffers around each child's residence and school. Retail Food Environment indices were also computed. Multivariable logistic regressions (residential access) and generalized estimating equations (school access) were used for analysis.
resultsResidential and school neighbourhood access to supermarkets was not associated with children's diets. Residing in neighbourhoods with lower access to fast-food restaurants and convenience stores was associated with a lower likelihood of eating and snacking out. Children attending schools in neighbourhoods with a higher number of unhealthful relative to healthful food establishments scored most poorly on dietary outcomes.
conclusionsFurther investigations are needed to inform policies aimed at shaping neighbourhood-level food purchasing opportunities, particularly for access to fast-food restaurants and convenience stores.
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