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SUBMITTER: Taillie LS
PROVIDER: S-EPMC4692370 | biostudies-literature | 2015 Nov
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Taillie Lindsey Smith LS Ng Shu Wen SW Popkin Barry M BM
Health affairs (Project Hope) 20151101 11
Healthier food initiatives conducted by national food retailers may offer opportunities to improve the nutritional profile of food purchases. Using a longitudinal data set of packaged food purchases made by US households, we examined the effect of a healthier food initiative officially launched by Walmart in 2011. From 2000 to 2013, household-level purchases of packaged foods at Walmart showed major declines in energy, sodium, and total sugar density, as well as in quantities of sugary beverages ...[more]