ReviewAdvances in nutrition (Bethesda, Md.)2014
Food availability/convenience and obesity.
Review in Advances in nutrition (Bethesda, Md.), 2014. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 68 papers, 4 of them syntheses that pooled it.
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Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.
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Who cites it
68 citing papers in PubMed, 4 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.
- The impact of the consumer and neighbourhood food environment on dietary intake and obesity-related outcomes: A systematic review of causal impact studies.Social science & medicine (1982) · 2022Pooled it
- Effectiveness of Nutritional Strategies on Improving the Quality of Diet of Children from 6 to 12 Years Old: A Systematic Review.Nutrients · 2022Pooled it
- How Does the University Food Environment Impact Student Dietary Behaviors? A Systematic Review.Frontiers in nutrition · 2022Pooled it
- Environmental Risk Factors for Developing Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus: A Systematic Review.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2018Pooled it
- A multi-component tailored intervention in family childcare homes improves diet quality and sedentary behavior of preschool children compared to an attention control: results from the Healthy Start-Comienzos Sanos cluster randomized trial.The international journal of behavioral nutrition and physical activity · 2022Trial
- The role of the built environment, food prices and neighborhood poverty in fruit and vegetable consumption: An instrumental variable analysis of the moving to opportunity experiment.Health & place · 2021Trial
- A multilevel, multicomponent childhood obesity prevention group-randomized controlled trial improves healthier food purchasing and reduces sweet-snack consumption among low-income African-American youth.Nutrition journal · 2018Trial
- Long-Term Weight Loss Effects of a Behavioral Weight Management Program: Does the Community Food Environment Matter?International journal of environmental research and public health · 2018Trial
- A nutrition environment measures survey for dollar stores (nems-ds) in rural south carolina: assessing nutrition equity and WIC readiness.BMC public health · 2026Article
- Associations between historical redlining and BMI: Potential indirect pathways through neighborhood socioeconomic and environment factors and their associated lifestyle behaviors in CARDIA.Health & place · 2026Article
- The emergence of meal delivery applications: a research agenda to advance the next decade of progress in nutrition.European journal of clinical nutrition · 2025Review
- Association of Community Distress With Lung Transplant Waitlist Acceptance.Clinical transplantation · 2025Article
- The effect of food environment on nutrition-related health: evidence from rural China.Journal of health, population, and nutrition · 2025Article
- Qualitative Analysis of a Home-Delivered Produce Prescription Intervention to Improve Food and Nutrition Security.Nutrients · 2024Article
- What does it take for healthy food retail programmes to be successful? Lessons learned in New York City.Public health nutrition · 2024Article
- It's About Timing: Contrasting the Metabolic Effects of Early vs. Late Time-Restricted Eating in Humans.Current nutrition reports · 2024Review
- Food insecurity, poor diet, and metabolic measures: The roles of stress and cortisol.Appetite · 2024Article
- The Metabolic Syndrome, a Human Disease.International journal of molecular sciences · 2024Review
- Biobehavioral susceptibility for obesity in childhood: Behavioral, genetic and neuroimaging studies of appetite.Physiology & behavior · 2023Review
- Changes in Food Consumption, BMI, and Body Composition in Youth in the US during the COVID-19 Pandemic.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2023Article
8 more citing papers are in PubMed but not listed here.
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Abstract
Neighborhood environments have received considerable attention in recent local, state, and national obesity prevention initiatives, with a particular focus on food deserts, or areas with poor access to healthy foods. Yet, there are inconsistencies in the evidence base, suggesting a nuanced association between neighborhood environment, food availability, diet behaviors, and obesity. There is heterogeneity in associations between environmental exposures and health outcomes across race/ethnicity, gender, region, and urbanicity, which results in complexity in the interpretation of findings. There are several limitations in the literature, including a predominance of cross-sectional studies, reliance on commercial business listings, lack of attention to the process by which diet resources are established and expanded within neighborhoods and the potential for individuals to selectively migrate to locate near such facilities, a predominant focus on residential neighborhoods, and lack of information about the decision-making process underlying purchasing patterns. More research is needed to address the complexity of individual-level residential decision making as well as the purposeful placement of food environment resources across social and geographic space using longitudinal data and complex statistical approaches. In addition, improvements in data quality and depth related to food access and availability are needed, including behavioral data on purchase patterns and interactions with the food environment, and greater attention to heterogeneity across subpopulations. As policy changes to the food environment move forward, it is critical that there is rigorous and scientific evaluation of environmental changes and their impact on individual-level diet choices and behaviors, and their further influence on body weight.
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