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Fast food proximity and weight gain in childhood and adolescence: Evidence from Great Britain.
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- Food Swamps and Transportation Access: Intersecting Structural Determinants of Food Shopping and Access in Marginalized Urban Communities.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2025Article
- Prevalence and Determinants of Overweight and Obesity Among Romanian Children Aged 5-17: A Cross-Sectional Study.Journal of clinical medicine · 2025Article
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- Barriers to Care for Pediatric Patients with Obesity.Life (Basel, Switzerland) · 2024Review
- Fast food proximity and weight gain in childhood and adolescence: Evidence from Great Britain.Health economics · 2024Article
- Linking the Urban Environment and Health: An Innovative Methodology for Measuring Individual-Level Environmental Exposures.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2023Article
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Abstract
We study the relationship between proximity to fast food restaurants and weight gain from late childhood to early adolescence. We use the Millennium Cohort Study, a UK-wide nationally representative longitudinal study, linked with granular geocoded food outlet data to measure the presence of fast food outlets around children's homes and schools from ages 7 to 14. We find that proximity to fast food outlets is associated with increased weight (body mass index, overweight, obese, body fat, weight), but only among those with maternal education below degree level. Within this sample, those with lower levels of emotional regulation are at heightened risk of weight gain.
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