Seeing the food swamp for the weeds: Moving beyond food retail mix in evaluating young people's food environments.

ABSTRACT: Nutritional health of children and youth is an increasing cause for concern in Canada. Through food and beverage messaging in multiple environments, young people develop eating behaviours with ramifications throughout their life course. Unhealthy food retailers near schools, recreation facilities, and childcare centres-key activity settings for healthy eating promotion-present repeated, compounding exposures to commercial geomarketing. Geomarketing impacts nutritional health by promoting highly processed, calorie-dense, and nutrient-poor foods and beverages across urban landscapes. While food retail mix (as a ratio of healthy to unhealthy food retailers) can be used to assess food environments at multiple scales, such measures may misrepresent young people's unique experience of these geog

SUBMITTER: Brown JA 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8142271 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature