City-Level Travel Time and Individual Dietary Consumption in Latin American Cities: Results from the SALURBAL Study.

ABSTRACT: There is limited empirical evidence on how travel time affects dietary patterns, and even less in Latin American cities (LACs). Using data from 181 LACs, we investigated whether longer travel times at the city level are associated with lower consumption of vegetables and higher consumption of sugar-sweetened beverages and if this association differs by city size. Travel time was measured as the average city-level travel time during peak hours and city-level travel delay time was measured as the average increase in travel time due to congestion on the street network during peak hours. Vegetables and sugar-sweetened beverages consumption were classified according to the frequency of consumption in days/week (5-7: "frequent", 2-4: "medium", and ≤1: "rare"). We estimate multilevel ordinal logi

SUBMITTER: Guimaraes JMN 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9602577 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature