Objective To examine the relationship between local food environments and obesity and
assess the quality of studies reviewed. Methods Systematic keyword searches identified …

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 …

Neighborhood social and built environments have been recognized as important contexts in
which health is shaped. The authors reviewed the extent to which these neighborhood …

Background—Poor lifestyle behaviors, including suboptimal diet, physical inactivity, and
tobacco use, are leading causes of preventable diseases globally. Although even modest …

Obesity prevalence among US children and adolescents has tripled in the past three
decades. Consequently, dramatic increases in chronic disease incidence are expected …

Excessive access to fast‐food restaurants (FFRs) in the neighbourhood is thought to be a
risk factor for childhood obesity by discouraging healthful dietary behaviours while …

The built and social neighborhood environment where a child lives has been increasingly
studied as an exposure that may affect child weight long term. We conducted a systematic …

Objective The Social Ecological Model (SEM) has been used to describe the aetiology of
childhood obesity and to develop a framework for prevention. The current paper applies the …

Objective: To compare the associations between food environment at the individual level,
socioeconomic status (SES) and obesity rates in two cities: Seattle and Paris. Methods …

The purpose of this review was to examine the factors that predict the development of
excessive fatness in children and adolescents. M edline, W eb of Science and PubMed were …