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Assessment of Social Transmission of Food Preferences Behaviors
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Using experienced activity spaces to measure foodscape exposure.

Yan Kestens1, Alexandre Lebel, Mark Daniel

  • 1Social and Preventive Medicine, Université de Montréal, CRCHUM, Montreal Public Health Department, Montreal, Canada. yan.kestens@umontreal.ca

Health & Place
|July 30, 2010
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New methods reveal how food environments impact eating habits and weight. Activity-space foodscape exposure measures, unlike neighborhood-based ones, better predict health outcomes.

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Area of Science:

  • Environmental Health
  • Public Health Nutrition
  • Behavioral Science

Background:

  • Understanding food environments' impact on eating behavior and weight is crucial.
  • Traditional measures of food exposure focus on fixed locations (neighborhoods, schools), limiting scope.
  • There's a need for people-based exposure measures beyond local areas.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To introduce and analyze novel activity-space measures of foodscape exposure.
  • To compare activity-space measures with traditional residential-based measures.
  • To assess the utility of activity-space measures in predicting health outcomes.

Main Methods:

  • Combined travel survey data with food store locations in Montreal and Quebec City.
  • Developed individual activity-space experienced foodscape exposure measures.

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  • Modeled activity-space exposure measures as predictors of health outcomes.

    • Main Results:

    • Activity-space foodscape exposure measures differ significantly from residential-based measures.
    • Exposure variations were observed across different age and income levels.
    • Activity-space measures demonstrated potential as predictors for health outcomes.

    Conclusions:

    • Activity-space measures offer a more personalized and dynamic assessment of food environment exposure.
    • Travel survey data can be leveraged to estimate environmental exposure for health research.
    • This approach advances understanding of food environments' role in health.