scholarly journals Three datasets for nutrition environment measures of food outlets located in the Lower Mississippi Delta region of the United States

F1000Research ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 9 ◽  
pp. 1307
Author(s):  
Jessica L. Thomson ◽  
Alicia S. Landry
Keyword(s):  
Fast Food ◽  
Mississippi Delta ◽  
The United States ◽  
Grocery Stores ◽  
Research Database ◽  
Delta Region ◽  
Nutrition Environment ◽  
Food Outlets ◽  
Fast Food Restaurants ◽  
Data Commons

This data note provides details of a research database containing 266 food outlets located in five rural towns in the Lower Mississippi Delta region of Mississippi, whose nutrition environments were measured from 2016 to 2018.  The food outlet types include grocery stores, convenience stores, full-service restaurants, and fast food restaurants.  The purpose of this publication is to describe the three datasets for external researchers who may be interested in making use of them.  The datasets are available from the USDA National Agricultural Library’s Ag Data Commons under a CC0 1.0 Universal License: https://doi.org/10.15482/USDA.ADC/1503704.

scholarly journals Three datasets for nutrition environment measures of food outlets located in the Lower Mississippi Delta region of the United States

F1000Research ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 9 ◽  
pp. 1307
Author(s):  
Jessica L. Thomson ◽  
Alicia S. Landry
Keyword(s):  
Fast Food ◽  
Mississippi Delta ◽  
The United States ◽  
Grocery Stores ◽  
Research Database ◽  
Delta Region ◽  
Nutrition Environment ◽  
Food Outlets ◽  
Fast Food Restaurants ◽  
Data Commons

This data note provides details of a research database containing 266 food outlets located in five rural towns in the Lower Mississippi Delta region of Mississippi, whose nutrition environments were measured from 2016 to 2018.  The food outlet types include grocery stores, convenience stores, full-service restaurants, and fast food restaurants.  The purpose of this publication is to describe the three datasets for external researchers who may be interested in making use of them.  The datasets are available from the USDA National Agricultural Library’s Ag Data Commons under a CC0 1.0 Universal License: https://doi.org/10.15482/USDA.ADC/1503704.

Moderation by Neighborhood Food Outlets on Relationships between Meal Sources and Diet

2021 ◽  
Vol 45 (2) ◽  
pp. 290-308
Author(s):  
Jessica L. Thomson ◽  
Alicia S. Landry ◽  
Tameka I. Walls ◽  
Melissa H. Goodman
Keyword(s):  
Dietary Intake ◽  
Fast Food ◽  
Linear Models ◽  
Grocery Store ◽  
Grocery Stores ◽  
Food Outlet ◽  
Added Sugars ◽  
Food Outlets ◽  
Food And Beverage ◽  
Fast Food Restaurants

Objectives: In this study, we tested for moderation by neighborhood food outlet presence on relationships between food outlet shopping or meal sources and dietary intake. Methods: We used generalized linear models to analyze parent-adolescent (12-17 years) dyad data from the 2014 Family Life, Activity, Sun, Health and Eating. Questions included food outlet presence in home (parent) and school (adolescent) neighborhoods (yes or no), shopping at food outlets (parent) (never, rarely, sometimes, often or always), and sources of food consumed away from and at home (weekly frequency). We captured food and beverage intakes via a dietary screener. Results: Relationships between adolescent added sugar intake and scratch cooked evening meals and meals away from home were found only when grocery stores and fast food restaurants, respectively, were present in adolescents' school neighborhoods. Shopping at fruit and vegetable (FV) markets and scratch cooked evening meals were associated with the largest increases in parent and adolescent FV intakes, respectively. Meals away from home at convenience stores were associated with the largest increases in parent and adolescent intakes of added sugars. Conclusions: Neighborhood grocery store and fast food restaurant presence moderated relationships between meal sources and dietary intake only in adolescents.

scholarly journals Local Retail Food Environment and Consumption of Fruit and Vegetable among Adults in Hong Kong

2018 ◽  
Vol 15 (10) ◽  
pp. 2247 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ting Zhang ◽  
Bo Huang
Keyword(s):  
Hong Kong ◽  
Food Environment ◽  
Fast Food ◽  
Vegetable Consumption ◽  
Grocery Stores ◽  
Fruit Consumption ◽  
Retail Food Environment ◽  
Convenience Stores ◽  
Fast Food Restaurants ◽  
Retail Food

Outside of western countries, the study of the local food environment and evidence for its association with dietary behavior is limited. The aim of this paper was to examine the association between the local retail food environment and consumption of fruit and vegetables (FV) among adults in Hong Kong. Local retail food environment was measured by density of different types of retail food outlets (grocery stores, convenience stores, and fast food restaurants) within a 1000 m Euclidean buffer around individual’s homes using a geographic information system (GIS). The Retail Food Environment Index (RFEI) was calculated based on the relative density of fast-food restaurants and convenience stores to grocery stores. Logistic regressions were performed to examine associations using cross-sectional data of 1977 adults (18 years or older). Overall, people living in an area with the highest RFEI (Q4, >5.76) had significantly greater odds of infrequent FV consumption (<7 days/week) after covariates adjustment (infrequent fruit consumption: OR = 1.36, 95% CI 1.04–1.78; infrequent vegetable consumption: OR = 1.72, 95% CI 1.11–2.68) in comparison to the lowest RFEI (Q1, <2.25). Highest density of fast food restaurants (Q4, >53) was also significantly associated with greater odds of infrequent fruit consumption (<7 days/week) (unadjusted model: OR = 1.34, 95% CI 1.04–1.73), relative to lowest density of fast food restaurants (Q1, <13). No significant association of density of grocery stores or convenience stores was observed with infrequent FV consumption regardless of the covariates included in the model. Our results suggest that the ratio of fast-food restaurants and convenience stores to grocery stores near people’s home is an important environmental factor in meeting fruit and vegetable consumption guidelines. “Food swamps” (areas with an abundance of unhealthy foods) rather than “food deserts” (areas where there is limited access to healthy foods) seems to be more of a problem in Hong Kong’s urban areas. We advanced international literature by providing evidence in a non-western setting.

scholarly journals Frequency of Restaurant, Delivery and Takeaway Usage Is Not Related to BMI among Adults in Scotland

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ahmad Albalawi ◽  
Catherine Hambly ◽  
John R. Speakman
Keyword(s):  
Fast Food ◽  
Online Survey ◽  
New Technology ◽  
Cross Sectional ◽  
Food Outlets ◽  
Total Food ◽  
Frequency Of Use ◽  
Fast Food Restaurants ◽  
Widespread Belief ◽  
Individual Use

Background: The frequency of visits to restaurants has been suggested to contribute to the pandemic of obesity. However, few studies have examined how individual use of these restaurants is related to BMI using new technology of reminding to avoid memory error. Aim: To investigate the association between the usage of different types of food outlets and BMI among adults in Scotland. Method: The study was cross-sectional. Participants (n = 681) completed an online survey for seven consecutive days where all food purchased at food outlets was reported each day. We explored the relationship between BMI and usage of these restaurants using auto-reminder text system. Results: Body Mass Index (BMI) of both males and females was not related to frequency of use of Full-Service Restaurants (FSRs), Fast Food Restaurants (FFRs), delivery or takeaways, when assessed individually, or combined (TFO= Total Food Outlet). Conclusion: These data do not support the widespread belief that consumption of food out of the home at fast-food and full-service restaurants, combined with that derived from deliveries and takeaways, is a major driver of obesity in UK.

scholarly journals Evaluation of Different Crop Models for Simulating Rice Development and Yield in the U.S. Mississippi Delta

Agronomy ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 10 (12) ◽  
pp. 1905
Author(s):  
Sanai Li ◽  
David Fleisher ◽  
Dennis Timlin ◽  
Vangimalla R. Reddy ◽  
Zhuangji Wang ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Decision Support ◽  
Mississippi Delta ◽  
Rice Yield ◽  
Growing Season ◽  
The United States ◽  
Delta Region ◽  
Growth Duration ◽  
Cold Temperatures ◽  
Crop Models ◽  
General Response

The United States is one of the top rice exporters in the world, but warming temperatures and other climate trends may affect grain yield and quality. The use of crop models as decision support tools for a climate impact assessment would be beneficial, but suitability of models for representative growing conditions need to be verified. Therefore, the ability of CERES-Rice and ORYZA crop models to predict rice yield and growing season duration in the Mississippi Delta region was assessed for two widely-grown varieties using a 34-year database. CERES-Rice simulated growth duration more accurately than ORYZA as a result of the latter model’s use of lower cardinal temperatures. An increase in base and optimal temperatures improved ORYZA accuracy and reduced systematic error (e.g., correlation coefficient increased by 0.03–0.27 and root mean square error decreased by 0.3–1.9 days). Both models subsequently showed acceptable skill in reproducing the growing season duration and had similar performance for predicting rice yield for most locations and years. CERES-Rice predictions were more sensitive to years with lower solar radiation, but neither model accurately mimicked negative impacts of very warm or cold temperatures. Both models were shown to reproduce 50% percentile yield trends of more than 100 varieties in the region for the 34-year period when calibrated with two representative cultivars. These results suggest that both models are suitable for exploring the general response of multiple rice cultivars in the Mississippi Delta region for decision support studies involving the current climate. The response of rice growth and development to cold injury and high temperature stress, and variation in cultivar sensitivity, should be further developed and tested for improved decision making tools.

scholarly journals Ground Beef: Implications for the Southeastern U.S. Beef Industry

1979 ◽  
Vol 11 (2) ◽  
pp. 21-26
Author(s):  
J. Richard Conner ◽  
Robert W. Rogers
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Fast Food ◽  
Ground Beef ◽  
The United States ◽  
Beef Industry ◽  
Increasing Trend ◽  
Fast Food Restaurants ◽  
Eating Out ◽  
At Home

Currently the United States consumes an estimated 39 to 45 percent of its beef in the “ground” form [3, 7, 8]. As recently as 1972 the estimated percentage of beef consumed as ground was only 33 [3] and some industry leaders have estimated the proportion by 1985 to be from 50 to 65 percent [5, 8, 11, 12]. This increasing trend in the percentage of beef consumed in the ground form is often attributed to several factors including (1) an increase in the percentage of wives working away from home which results in more “eating out” and less home preparation of “traditional” meat dishes for those meals consumed at home, and (2) the continuing growth of the fast-food restaurants and their popular “hamburger” meals [5, 8, 11, 12].

scholarly journals Exploring Student Food Behaviour in Relation to Food Retail over the Time of Implementing Ontario’s School Food and Beverage Policy

2019 ◽  
Vol 16 (14) ◽  
pp. 2563
Author(s):  
Rhona M. Hanning ◽  
Henry Luan ◽  
Taryn A. Orava ◽  
Renata F. Valaitis ◽  
James K. H. Jung ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Fast Food ◽  
Easy Access ◽  
Urban Region ◽  
Healthy Foods ◽  
School Food ◽  
Food Retail ◽  
Food Outlets ◽  
Food And Beverage ◽  
Fast Food Restaurants ◽  
Access To Food

Background: Canadian provincial policies, like Ontario’s School Food and Beverage Policy (P/PM 150), increasingly mandate standards for food and beverages offered for sale at school. Given concerns regarding students leaving school to purchase less healthy foods, we examined student behaviours and competitive food retail around schools in a large urban region of Southern Ontario. Methods: Using a geographic information system (GIS), we enumerated food outlets (convenience stores, fast-food restaurants, full-service restaurants) within 500, 1000 and 1500 m of all 389 regional schools spanning years of policy implementation. Consenting grade 6–10 students within 31 randomly selected schools completed a web-based 24-h diet recall (WEB-Q) and questionnaire. Results: Food outlet numbers increased over time (p < 0.01); post-policy, within 1000 m, they averaged 27.31 outlets, with a maximum of 65 fast-food restaurants around one school. Of WEB-Q respondents (n = 2075, mean age = 13.4 ± 1.6 years), those who ate lunch at a restaurant/take-out (n = 84, 4%) consumed significantly more energy (978 vs. 760 kcal), sodium (1556 vs. 1173 mg), and sugar (44.3 vs. 40.1 g). Of elementary and secondary school respondents, 22.1% and 52.4% reported ever eating at fast food outlets during school days. Conclusions: Students have easy access to food retail in school neighbourhoods. The higher energy, sodium and sugar of these options present a health risk.

scholarly journals Do minority and poor neighborhoods have higher access to fast-food restaurants in the United States?

2014 ◽  
Vol 29 ◽  
pp. 10-17 ◽  
Author(s):  
Peter James ◽  
Mariana C. Arcaya ◽  
Devin M. Parker ◽  
Reginald D. Tucker-Seeley ◽  
S.V. Subramanian
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Fast Food ◽  
The United States ◽  
Fast Food Restaurants

scholarly journals Racial Residential Segregation and Colorectal Cancer Mortality in the Mississippi Delta Region

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Aaron J Kruse-Diehr ◽  
Justin T McDaniel ◽  
Marquita W Lewis-Thames ◽  
Aimee James ◽  
Musa Yahaya
Keyword(s):  
Colorectal Cancer ◽  
Residential Segregation ◽  
Mississippi Delta ◽  
State Level ◽  
The United States ◽  
Census Bureau ◽  
Delta Region ◽  
Community Factors ◽  
Black And White ◽  
Using Data

Abstract Background Few studies have examined the effects of segregation on colorectal cancer (CRC) outcomes, and none has determined if rurality moderates the effect of segregation on CRC mortality. We examined whether the effect of segregation on CRC mortality was moderated by rurality in the Mississippi Delta Region, an economically distressed and historically segregated region of the United States. Methods Using data from the US Census Bureau and the Surveillance, Epidemiology, and End Results (SEER) program, we estimated linear mixed-effects models with state-level random effects in which Black and White CRC mortality rates in Delta Region counties (N = 252) were regressed on county rurality, White-Black residential segregation indices, an interaction term for these two variables, and a vector of socioeconomic control variables. Missing data were replaced with values generated via random forest imputation. Results Segregation was a risk factor for Black CRC mortality in urban Delta counties but was associated with lower Black CRC mortality in rural counties (B = − 23.30 [95% CI = − 38.51, − 7.92]). For Whites, living in a rural area did not moderate the relationship between segregation and CRC mortality, though White CRC mortality was inversely associated with White population proportion (B = − 7.12 [95% CI = − 10.66, − 3.43]). Conclusions Health outcomes related to segregation vary by racial, contextual and community factors. We give possible explanations for our findings and provide implications for practice and recommendations for further research to better understand the CRC mortality burden in segregated communities.

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