Concerning Limitations of Food-Environment Research: A Narrative Review and Commentary Framed around Obesity and Diet-Related Diseases in Youth

Lucan, Sean C.

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“…48 While it has been shown that they usually do have a greater availability of healthy foods at lower prices when compared to other types of stores, 33,49 they also offer more UPFPs at lower prices 19,50 and their in-store content may vary greatly among supermarkets. 20,29 This study confirms these results and suggests that supermarkets cannot be uniformly considered healthy stores. Many researchers are urging their colleagues to explore the consumer nutrition environment further and revise their categorization of stores as healthy or unhealthy.…”

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“…Many researchers are urging their colleagues to explore the consumer nutrition environment further and revise their categorization of stores as healthy or unhealthy. 23,29,32,51 In contrast to availability and price, produce quality did not vary among stores. This is probably due to the highest quality standard to which chain supermarkets adhere.…”

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“…This scarcity of data impedes the ability to orient, develop and implement interventions and policies that would make it conducive to healthy eating. 29 A recent review by Minaker and colleagues 30 particularly highlights the lack of research on the consumer food environment in Canada, with only one paper that used measures of the consumer food environment to study the association between food environment and health outcomes. While store proximity and availability in one's neighbourhood have been linked with diet quality, studies have reported inconsistent results, 31 suggesting that physical accessibility alone might not be sufficient to explain dietary habits.…”

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Development, reliability and use of a food environment assessment tool in supermarkets of four neighbourhoods in Montréal, Canada

Jalbert-Arsenault

Robitaille

Paquette

2017

Health Promot Chronic Dis Prev Can

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Development, reliability and use of a food environment assessment tool in supermarkets of four neighbourhoods in Montréal, Canada

Jalbert-Arsenault

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2017

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“…In the USA, diet-related chronic diseases are leading causes of disability and premature death [12]. Transitioning from being overweight as a child or adolescent to a normal weight adult rarely occurs, and there are many factors that influence the eating habits of young people with individual, social, and cultural factors being very important [12].…”

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“…Transitioning from being overweight as a child or adolescent to a normal weight adult rarely occurs, and there are many factors that influence the eating habits of young people with individual, social, and cultural factors being very important [12]. As reviewed by Dr. Mennella and her team, more than 15 % of children's total caloric intake comes from added sugars and by age 3 years, most children consume at least one sugar-sweetened beverage daily [13].…”

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EDITORIAL: “The Koch’s” view on the sense of taste in endocrinology

Koch

2016

Rev Endocr Metab Disord

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Bobesity remains one of the biggest threats to the health of our children and our country. Around 17 percent of children and more than 30 percent of adults are currently considered obese-putting them at heightened risk for a wide range of health problems. If we fail to change the course of the nation's obesity epidemic, the current generation of young people may be the first in American history to live shorter, less healthy lives than their parents. According to the most recent data, rates of obesity now exceed 35 percent in three states (Arkansas, West Virginia and Mississippi), 22 states have rates above 30 percent, 45 states are above 25 percent, and every state is above 20 percent. Arkansas has the highest adult obesity rate at 35.9 percent, while Colorado has the lowest at 21.3 percent. The data show that 23 of 25 states with the highest rates of obesity are in the South and Midwest [1]^. In one of my previous reviews on the topic endocrine hypertension, I have provided insights into the various hormone imbalances that occur in people who are overweight or obese and have mentioned the potential problem of major addictions including hedonic eating and the addiction to consuming food items with a high content of fat, carbohydrates, and salt [2]. During the preparation of this endocrine hypertension review, I had the idea that perhaps taste perception is altered in many people nowadays, perhaps by manipulation of the taste system. This triggered my curiosity and I searched the literature with the key words taste, perception, endocrine, addiction, brain, hormones, sweeteners, salt, sweet, sour, bitter, umami, and fat. Among the published literature sources, I came across the names of the guest editors Drs. Duffy and Rother. Dr. Duffy and colleagues had investigated salt sensation and liking in an attempt to explain variability in sodium intake through oral sensory phenotype, and Dr. Rother had extensively published on artificial sweeteners.After phoning Drs. Duffy and Rother and proposing my idea of a special guest issue on the topic taste in endocrinology, they suggested that I should attend the annual meeting of the Association for Chemoreception Sciences. I followed their advice and enjoyed this convention immensely, especially meeting and interacting with a very diverse group of scientists including neuroscientists.As with many things in life nowadays, perception has become more important than real facts and some people may call this phenomenon simply Bsuperior marketing^or propaganda. Perceived taste is affected by Bdiet^drinks which contain less sugar but non-nutritive sweeteners like aspartame [3]. The increasing use of artificial sweeteners over the last several

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What is known about consumer nutrition environments in Australia? A scoping review of the literature

Pulker

Thornton

Trapp

2018

Obesity Science & Practice

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SummaryObjectiveFood environments can influence food selection and hold the potential to reduce obesity, non‐communicable diseases and their inequalities. ‘Consumer nutrition environments’ describe what consumers encounter within a food retail outlet, including products, price, promotion and placement. This study aimed to summarize the attributes that have been examined in existing peer‐reviewed studies of Australian consumer nutrition environments, identify knowledge gaps and provide recommendations for future research.MethodsA systematic search of peer‐reviewed literature was conducted. Sixty‐six studies that assessed an aspect of within‐store consumer nutrition environments were included.ResultsMost studies were published from 2011 onwards and were conducted in capital cities and in supermarkets. Studies assessed the domains of product (40/66), price (26/66), promotion (16/66) and placement (6/66). The most common research themes identified were assessment of the impact of area socioeconomic status (13/66), remoteness (9/66) and food outlet type (7/66) on healthy food prices; change in price of healthy foods (6/66); variety of healthy foods (5/66); and prevalence of unhealthy child‐orientated products (5/66).ConclusionsThis scoping review identified a large number of knowledge gaps. Recommended priorities for researchers are as follows: (1) develop consistent observational methodology, (2) consider consumer nutrition environments in rural and remote communities, (3) develop an understanding of food service outlets, (4) build on existing evidence in all four domains of product, price, placement and promotion and (5) determine effective policy and store‐based interventions to increase healthy food selection.

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Concerning Limitations of Food-Environment Research: A Narrative Review and Commentary Framed around Obesity and Diet-Related Diseases in Youth

Cited by 76 publications

References 120 publications

Development, reliability and use of a food environment assessment tool in supermarkets of four neighbourhoods in Montréal, Canada

Development, reliability and use of a food environment assessment tool in supermarkets of four neighbourhoods in Montréal, Canada

EDITORIAL: “The Koch’s” view on the sense of taste in endocrinology

What is known about consumer nutrition environments in Australia? A scoping review of the literature

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