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Children, especially older children, and their families purchase a wide variety of foods and beverages at neighborhood corner stores, grocery stores and restaurants. The studies in this research area focus on these food outlets and on the policies that affect the purchasing decisions made by children and their families. Title: Mobile Food Vending and the After-School Food Environment
RWJF Grant ID: 63049
Principal Investigator: Barbara Laraia, Ph.D.
Organization: University of California, San Francisco
Results: This article finds that mobile food vendors contribute to after-school snacking among children, and should be considered part of the school food environment. Based on data collected in Oakland, CA in the spring of 2008, researchers found a wide variety of vendors near schools. They include vendors who sell low-nutrient, calorie-dense items, such as ice cream and candy, and those who sell nutritious items, such as whole and processed (cut and bagged) fruits and vegetables. Forty percent of the whole and processed fruits and vegetables sold by vendors were consumed by children.
Title: Healthy Food Availability in Small Urban Food Stores: A Comparison of Four
RWJF Grant IDs: 65050, 63049, 63052, 63149
Principal Investigator: Kelley E Borradaile, Ph.D.; Barbara Laraia, Ph.D., M.P.H., R.D.; Gary Foster, Ph.D.; Joel Gittelsohn, Ph.D., M.S.
Organizations: Temple University; University of California, San Francisco; Temple University; Johns Hopkins University
Results: This article assesses the availability of healthy foods in small food stores within four metropolitan areas: Baltimore, Maryland; Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota; Oakland, California; and Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Overall, availability of healthy foods within these small urban stores was limited. For nearly all food/beverage categories, scores regarding healthy food availability increased as store size increased.
Title: Snacking in Children: The Role of Urban Corner Stores
RWJF Grant ID: 63052; 65050
Principal Investigator: Gary D. Foster, Ph.D.; Kelley E. Borradaile, Ph.D.
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Results: This study provides data on what children purchase in corner stores located near their schools. The investigators collected data on 833 purchases that students made before and after school at 24 different corner stores. (Surveys were conducted immediately outside the stores after the students exited.) The students purchased an average of 1497.7 calories per corner-store visit, and most of them on energy-dense, low-nutritive items.
Source: Borradaile KE, Sherman S, Vander Veur SS, et al. Snacking in Children: The Role of Urban Corner Stores. Pediatrics 2009 Oct 12. [Epub ahead of print]
Title: Inequality in Obesigenic Environments: Fast Food Density in New York City
RWJF Grant ID: 63155
Principal Investigator: Naa Oyo A. Kwate, Ph.D.
Organization: Columbia University
Results: This paper documents the relation between racial and socioeconomic inequalities and the density of fast food in New York City. The researchers found that areas that were "predominantly Black" had higher densities of fast food than predominantly White areas, regardless of income level. Such results highlight the need to develop policy-level interventions to address racial disparities in food environments.
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