Associations of supermarket accessibility with obesity and fruit and vegetable consumption in the conterminous United States.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Limited access to supermarkets may reduce consumption of healthy foods, resulting in poor nutrition and increased prevalence of obesity. Most studies have focused on accessibility of supermarkets in specific urban settings or localized rural communities. Less is known, however, about how supermarket accessibility is associated with obesity and healthy diet at the national level and how these associations differ in urban versus rural settings. We analyzed data on obesity and fruit and vegetable (F/V) consumption from the Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System for 2000-2006 at the county level. We used 2006 Census Zip Code Business Patterns data to compute population-weighted mean distance to supermarket at the county level for different sizes of supermarket. Multileve

SUBMITTER: Michimi A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC2959055 | biostudies-literature | 2010 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature