..., strategies are needed that can effectively impact widespread dietary practices and population nutrition and health. Increasingly, the food environment has been recognized as a powerful influencer of the quality of diets of community members. Local nutrition policies can effectively change the food...

... Abstract Many low- and middle-income countries (LMICs) are experiencing profound changes in food environments, including a rapid growth of supermarkets and other modern retailers. Changing food environments can influence people’s diets, nutrition, and health. While in many LMICs, undernutrition...

... and consumption. Another conclusion from this methodological review on GIS measures of the food environment was that future research would benefit from a combination of GIS methods with survey approaches to describe both built and social environmental characteristics as important determinants of individual...

... evidence-based food system strategies to drive improvements in micronutrient deficiencies in low- and middle-income countries in the context of school-aged children and adolescents: agriculture, food supply chains, food environments, and social behavioral change communication. With multiple players...

... between poor diet quality and pregnant women from lower-income households or with food affordability issues [ 44 , 45 , 46 , 47 , 48 , 49 ]. Environmental Factors Influencing Dietary Choices Social Environment and Perceived Social Pressure Findings regarding the influence of the social...

... Abstract The rapid increase in obesity prevalence during the past decades points to the important impact of environmental changes on the development of overweight in children and adolescents. A mismatch between increasing energy consumption in an attractive and abundant food environment...

..., a serious clinical health problem in all countries. • Health professionals should understand the causes and consequences of undernutrition to support, educate and empower patients to follow healthier diets when they are discharged from clinical settings into unfavorable food and nutrition environments...

..., and stress; Other: attitudes, beliefs, and other social constructs. Food Environment The food environment encompasses physical, economic, political, and socio-cultural aspects that influence people engaging with the food system and making their decisions about acquiring, preparing, and consuming...

... that traditional feeding practices, which evolved to protect children from environmental threats and ensure adequate intake in the context of food scarcity, can be maladaptive in current environments. An evidence base is needed to inform public policy to reduce early obesity risk in current environments, where too...

... correlates of obesogenic behaviors. Am J Prev Med 2006;31:525-529 3. Foresight: Tackling Obesities: Future Choices - Project Report. London, Government Office for Science, 2007; 4. Bergeron P, Reyburn S: Impact of built environment on physical activity, food intake and body weight (in French). Quebec...

..., and limited opportunity for professional development. The fourth speaker Patricia Crawford spoke on Community Policies to Change Food Access to Improve Nutritional Health and addressed underlying food environment changes in communities to provide more healthful, affordable, and accessible healthy foods...

... to have higher levels of micronutrient deficiency [ 5 ]. The message in the 2018 Global Nutrition Report is loud and clear: diets are suboptimal in all parts of the world. This is true across all age groups, as it affects children, adolescents, adults, and the elderly. Changes in the food environment...

... Abstract The urgent call to transform global food systems is well founded on the need to reduce the effects of food systems on human health, environment, peoples’ rights, and creation of a just society. Unhealthy diets contribute significantly to the global disease burden and pose huge risks...

... in children's early food environment and eating experiences through food selection, portion size, timing, frequency, structure, and social context of the eating environment [ 6 ]. Parental feeding practices have been of interest to researchers and clinicians alike because they constitute modifiable risk factors...

... growth outcomes are less clear. The “behavioral susceptibility hypothesis” proposes that a genetic predisposition to become obese manifests through the development of “appetitive traits” linked with greater responsiveness to the food environment and poorer self-regulation that promotes increased energy...

...: structural and compositional classification of unique nanometer-sized protein lipid particles of human milk. J Agric Food Chem 2010;58:11234-11242. 5. German JB, Dillard CJ: Composition, structure and absorption of milk lipids: a source of energy, fat-soluble nutrients and bioactive molecules. Crit Rev...

... Abstract To understand the development of children’s flavor preferences, it is important to consider the context of the feeding environment. Although children are predisposed to prefer sweet-tasting foods and beverages and to avoid bitter-tasting foods such as dark-green vegetables, parents can...

... habits is difficult. A key question is whether the food environment can be modified to help people lower the energy density of their diets and to eat appropriate amounts in order to prevent the development of obesity and facilitate weight management. Environmental Approach The types of foods...

..., including dependency by some Western Pacific nations on developed countries for food [ 2 ]. Given the relatively long genetic isolation of Pacific islanders [ 5 ] and the relatively short time it has taken for obesity levels to increase, it is clear that behavioural and environmental change has been...