Food environment interventions targeting children and adolescents: A scoping review

Downs, Shauna; Demmler, Kathrin M.

doi:10.1016/j.gfs.2020.100403

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“…Globally, children's diets are far from optimal as they consume an excessive quantity of products high in sugar, fat and sodium and an insufficient quantity of fruits and vegetables . Although children's diets are the result of complex interaction of several factors, the role of food environment is increasingly recognized (Downs and Demmler, 2020).…”

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The role of food packaging on children's diet: Insights for the design of comprehensive regulations to encourage healthier eating habits in childhood and beyond

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Velázquez

Vidal

et al. 2022

Food Quality and Preference

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Food packaging design has become a key component of the marketing mix of companies to ensure the long-term success of their products, and to convey information that set apart their products from competitors. The aim of this review is to critically discuss the role of food packaging on children's diet. Food package design plays a key role in attracting children and parents' attention, shaping product associations, and influencing their purchase decisions. Packaging elements attracting children's attention and misleading health-related visual and textual cues may encourage children and their parents to choose energy-dense food products with excessive content of sugar, fat, and sodium. Results from this review suggest that comprehensive packaging regulations are necessary to protect children's health and encourage healthier eating habits from early years. Such regulations should go beyond products targeted at children, making informed decisions easier to encourage healthier choices, and including restrictions on the use of health-related cues on all products, as they ultimately influence the diet and the food available in the household.

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The role of food packaging on children's diet: Insights for the design of comprehensive regulations to encourage healthier eating habits in childhood and beyond

Ares

Velázquez

Vidal

et al. 2022

Food Quality and Preference

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“…The household survey was a multi-purpose questionnaire designed for several purposes and serving different components of an overarching research program (The CGIAR Agriculture for Nutrition and Health A4NH in Viet Nam). It did not cover the broad spectrum of the food environment domains that ideally should be covered, for example marketing, which is an important component of the external food environment that can be manipulated to address healthier consumption [71], or convenience, which is in need of clear indicators to distinguish it from the concept of accessibility. Besides, household GPS locations were collected mainly as means to control data quality and enumerators' diligence, rather than to collect the exact address of the household.…”

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Interactions between Food Environment and (Un)healthy Consumption: Evidence along a Rural-Urban Transect in Viet Nam

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There is limited evidence on food environment in low and middle-income countries (LMICs) and the application of food environment frameworks and associated metrics in such settings. Our study examines how food environment varies across an urban-peri-urban-rural gradient from three sites in North Viet Nam and its relationship with child undernutrition status and household consumption of processed food. By comparing three food environments, we present a picture of the food environment in a typical emerging economy with specific features such as non-market food sources (own production and food transfers) and dominance of the informal retail sector. We combined quantitative data (static geospatial data at neighborhood level and household survey) and qualitative data (in-depth interviews with shoppers). We found that across the three study sites, traditional open and street markets remain the most important outlets for respondents. Contrary to the common concern that urban households are the major consumers of processed foods, peri-urban and rural areas on average had higher consumption of ultra-processed foods than in urban areas. The low price levels of processed foods and the presence of processed foods even among the traditional convenience stores, those in closest proximity to the rural households, offer potential explanations of this result. Regarding undernutrition, low retail diversity and a household’s dependence on own production have important implications for the high prevalence of child undernutrition in rural areas. Our findings add to the current discussion on the critical role of the food environment on nutrition, such as the potential link between economic marginalization and access to food, and the role of food supply channels in consumption of processed foods.

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“…In a broad framework, the food environment is any opportunity to obtain food. It refers to the availability, affordability, convenience, promotion and quality of food and the circumstances in which consumers interact with food systems [15]. The food environment is a complex concept with different dimensions: the community food environment (number, type, location, and accessibility of food sources); consumer food environment (portion sizes, food options, placement, price, and promotion of food); organizational food environment (access to food in workplaces or schools); and information food environment (marketing, media, and advertising) [16,17].…”

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Assessing Parental Preferences Regarding a Plant-Based Game for Educating Children about More Sustainable and Healthier Diets

Uldemolins

Magistris

2021

Sustainability

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Environmental damage or health concerns related to diet are some alarming consequences of our behaviour in the near future. Consumers can make a difference depending on their eating behaviour and conscientiousness about minimizing environmental damage. One way to make children more aware of the environment and induce them to eat healthier food in the future might be educational games where they could learn the importance of the environment and the effect of the food they eat on their health status. In this study, we investigated parental behaviour when feeding their children and their willingness to pay for a game product with educational and eating functions. The sample consisted of 300 parents of children aged from 4 to 12. A hypothetical choice experiment has been used and a latent class model estimated the parents’ preferences for a plant-based product game carrying two attributes, namely, the price and narrative context of the game The results indicated that parents were willing to pay more for a product with a storybook related to healthy eating habits or recycling than one with no storybook. Moreover, two dominant feeding styles in households were found: indulgent parents and uninvolved parents. This alternative approach is oriented toward educating people from the early stages of their lives, creating a favourable environment for the development of preferences for healthier food.

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Food environment interventions targeting children and adolescents: A scoping review

Cited by 40 publications

References 93 publications

The role of food packaging on children's diet: Insights for the design of comprehensive regulations to encourage healthier eating habits in childhood and beyond

The role of food packaging on children's diet: Insights for the design of comprehensive regulations to encourage healthier eating habits in childhood and beyond

Interactions between Food Environment and (Un)healthy Consumption: Evidence along a Rural-Urban Transect in Viet Nam

Assessing Parental Preferences Regarding a Plant-Based Game for Educating Children about More Sustainable and Healthier Diets

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