Obesity pathogenesis: an endocrine society scientific statement

MW Schwartz, RJ Seeley, LM Zeltser… - Endocrine …, 2017 - academic.oup.com
Obesity is among the most common and costly chronic disorders worldwide. Estimates
suggest that in the United States obesity affects one-third of adults, accounts for up to one …

[HTML][HTML] Concepts and critical perspectives for food environment research: a global framework with implications for action in low-and middle-income countries

C Turner, A Aggarwal, H Walls, A Herforth… - Global food security, 2018 - Elsevier
Malnutrition in all its forms currently affects one in three people globally and is considered
one of the greatest public health challenges of our time. Low-and middle-income countries …

The relationship of the local food environment with obesity: a systematic review of methods, study quality, and results

LK Cobb, LJ Appel, M Franco, JC Jones‐Smith, A Nur… - …, 2015 - Wiley Online Library
Objective To examine the relationship between local food environments and obesity and
assess the quality of studies reviewed. Methods Systematic keyword searches identified …

[BOOK][B] Sustainable diets: how ecological nutrition can transform consumption and the food system

P Mason, T Lang - 2017 - taylorfrancis.com
How can huge populations be fed healthily, equitably and affordably while maintaining the
ecosystems on which life depends? The evidence of diet's impact on public health and the …

Measures of the food environment: A systematic review of the field, 2007–2015

LA Lytle, RL Sokol - Health & place, 2017 - Elsevier
Background Many studies have examined the relationship between the food environment
and health-related outcomes, but fewer consider the integrity of measures used to assess …

[HTML][HTML] Socioeconomic inequalities in the healthiness of food choices: Exploring the contributions of food expenditures

R Pechey, P Monsivais - Preventive medicine, 2016 - Elsevier
Investigations of the contribution of food costs to socioeconomic inequalities in diet quality
may have been limited by the use of estimated (vs. actual) food expenditures, not accounting …

Distance to store, food prices, and obesity in urban food deserts

B Ghosh-Dastidar, D Cohen, G Hunter, SN Zenk… - American journal of …, 2014 - Elsevier
Background Lack of access to healthy foods may explain why residents of low-income
neighborhoods and African Americans in the US have high rates of obesity. The findings on …

Obesogenic environments: a systematic review of the association between the physical environment and adult weight status, the SPOTLIGHT project

JD Mackenbach, H Rutter, S Compernolle, K Glonti… - BMC public health, 2014 - Springer
Background Understanding which physical environmental factors affect adult obesity, and
how best to influence them, is important for public health and urban planning. Previous …

Longitudinal associations between neighborhood physical and social environments and incident type 2 diabetes mellitus: the Multi-Ethnic Study of Atherosclerosis …

PJ Christine, AH Auchincloss, AG Bertoni… - JAMA internal …, 2015 - jamanetwork.com
Importance Neighborhood environments may influence the risk for develo** type 2
diabetes mellitus (T2DM), but, to our knowledge, no longitudinal study has evaluated …

Built environment, selected risk factors and major cardiovascular disease outcomes: a systematic review

P Malambo, AP Kengne, A De Villiers, EV Lambert… - PloS one, 2016 - journals.plos.org
Introduction Built environment attributes have been linked to cardiovascular disease (CVD)
risk. Therefore, identifying built environment attributes that are associated with CVD risk is …