Community food environment measures in the Alabama Black Belt: Implications for cancer risk reduction

Autor: Rebecca Gyawu, Joseph E. Quansah, Souleymane Fall, Peter N. Gichuhi, Adelia C. Bovell-Benjamin
Jazyk: angličtina
Rok vydání: 2015
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Zdroj: Preventive Medicine Reports, Vol 2, Iss C, Pp 689-698 (2015)
Druh dokumentu: article
ISSN: 2211-3355
DOI: 10.1016/j.pmedr.2015.08.015
Popis: In-store measures were utilized to evaluate the availability of healthy food choices and nutrition/health promotion messages for cancer risk reduction in the selected Alabama Black Belt counties/cities. Sixty one retail food outlets (RFOs) were audited in 12 Alabama Black Belt cities. Store types included convenience stores (49.2%), restaurants (19.7%), fast food restaurants (16.4%), small supermarkets (8.2%), and large supermarket and farmers' markets (3.3 %), respectively. Although there were low numbers of farmers' markets/street stands and large supermarkets, these had significantly (p
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