The local food environment and diet: a systematic review

CE Caspi, G Sorensen, SV Subramanian, I Kawachi - Health & place, 2012 - Elsevier
Despite growing attention to the problem of obesogenic environments, there has not been a
comprehensive review evaluating the food environment–diet relationship. This study aims to …

Measures of the food environment: A systematic review of the field, 2007–2015

LA Lytle, RL Sokol - Health & place, 2017 - Elsevier
Background Many studies have examined the relationship between the food environment
and health-related outcomes, but fewer consider the integrity of measures used to assess …

Food environment typology: advancing an expanded definition, framework, and methodological approach for improved characterization of wild, cultivated, and built …

SM Downs, S Ahmed, J Fanzo, A Herforth - Foods, 2020 - mdpi.com
The food environment is a critical place in the food system to implement interventions to
support sustainable diets and address the global syndemic of obesity, undernutrition, and …

Food swamps predict obesity rates better than food deserts in the United States

K Cooksey-Stowers, MB Schwartz… - International journal of …, 2017 - mdpi.com
This paper investigates the effect of food environments, characterized as food swamps, on
adult obesity rates. Food swamps have been described as areas with a high-density of …

Dietary inequalities: what is the evidence for the effect of the neighbourhood food environment?

C Black, G Moon, J Baird - Health & place, 2014 - Elsevier
This review summarises the evidence for inequalities in community and consumer nutrition
environments from ten previous review articles, and also assesses the evidence for the …

[HTML][HTML] Relationship between urban sprawl and physical activity, obesity, and morbidity–Update and refinement

R Ewing, G Meakins, S Hamidi, AC Nelson - Health & place, 2014 - Elsevier
Aims This study aims to model multiple health outcomes and behaviors in terms of the
updated, refined, and validated county compactness/sprawl measures. Methods Multiple …

Large-scale diet tracking data reveal disparate associations between food environment and diet

T Althoff, H Nilforoshan, J Hua, J Leskovec - Nature communications, 2022 - nature.com
An unhealthy diet is a major risk factor for chronic diseases including cardiovascular
disease, type 2 diabetes, and cancer,,–. Limited access to healthy food options may …

How to identify food deserts: measuring physical and economic access to supermarkets in King County, Washington

J Jiao, AV Moudon, J Ulmer… - … journal of public …, 2012 - ajph.aphapublications.org
Objectives. We explored new ways to identify food deserts. Methods. We estimated physical
and economic access to supermarkets for 5 low-income groups in Seattle–King County …

Foodscapes and the geographies of poverty: Sustenance, strategy, and politics in an urban neighborhood

C Miewald, E McCann - Antipode, 2014 - Wiley Online Library
This paper argues that food should be a more central focus of critical geographical research
into urban poverty and that the concept of “foodscape” can contribute to this literature. We …

Dietary assessment in food environment research: a systematic review

SI Kirkpatrick, J Reedy, EN Butler, KW Dodd… - American journal of …, 2014 - Elsevier
Context The existing evidence on food environments and diet is inconsistent, potentially
because of heterogeneity in measures used to assess diet. The objective of this review …