Local food environments are associated with girls’ energy, sugar-sweetened beverage and snack-food intakes

To describe availability and frequency of use of local snack-food outlets and determine whether reported use of these outlets was associated with dietary intakes. Data were cross-sectional. Availability and frequency of use of three types of local snack-food outlets were reported. Daily dietary inta...

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Published in:Public health nutrition 2014-10, Vol.17 (10), p.2194-2200
Main Authors: Deierlein, Andrea L, Galvez, Maida P, Yen, Irene H, Pinney, Susan M, Biro, Frank M, Kushi, Lawrence H, Teitelbaum, Susan, Wolff, Mary S
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Beverages
Beverages - adverse effects
Beverages - economics
Breast cancer
Candy
Child
Child Behavior
Child Nutritional Physiological Phenomena
Children & youth
Cohort Studies
Convenience stores
Cross-Sectional Studies
Diet
Diet - adverse effects
Diet - economics
Dietary Sucrose - administration & dosage
Dietary Sucrose - adverse effects
Energy
Energy Intake
Ethnicity
Family income
Fast Foods - adverse effects
Fast Foods - economics
Female
Food
Food Supply - economics
Girls
HOT TOPIC – Sugar
Households
Humans
Nutrition Policy
Nutrition research
Nutritive Sweeteners - administration & dosage
Nutritive Sweeteners - adverse effects
Observational studies
Patient Compliance
Puberty
Questionnaires
Residence Characteristics
Restaurants
Schools
Snack foods
Snacks
Sociodemographics
Sugar
United States
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Summary:To describe availability and frequency of use of local snack-food outlets and determine whether reported use of these outlets was associated with dietary intakes. Data were cross-sectional. Availability and frequency of use of three types of local snack-food outlets were reported. Daily dietary intakes were based on the average of up to four 24 h dietary recalls. Multivariable linear regression models estimated average daily intakes of energy, sugar-sweetened beverages (SSB) and snack foods/sweets associated with use of outlets. Multi-site, observational cohort study in the USA, 2004-2006. Girls aged 6-8 years (n 1010). Weekly frequency of use of local snack-food outlets increased with number of available types of outlets. Girls with access to only one type of outlet reported consuming food/beverage items less frequently than girls with access to two or three types of outlets (P
ISSN:1368-9800
1475-2727
DOI:10.1017/S1368980014000639