Supermarkets, do they make the healthy choice the easy choice? A review of the healthfulness of the supermarket food environment.

IF 7.6 2区 医学 Q1 NUTRITION & DIETETICS
Sinead O'Mahony, Nuala Collins, Eileen R Gibney, Gerardine Doyle
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Abstract

The over consumption of high fat, sugar, and salt foods increases population risk of overweight, obesity and diet-related noncommunicable diseases. The food environment mediates consumer food choices and thus plays an important role in diet quality and related health outcomes. The built food environment, where most people in high-income countries access their food, has been found to be obesogenic. The aim of this review was to investigate the healthfulness of the supermarket food environment. Supermarkets are an important source of healthy foods in the built food environment. However, there are disparities in access to supermarkets, and in several countries, supermarkets located in areas of higher deprivation have an unhealthier consumer food environment. This double burden limits access to healthy foods amongst lower socio-economic groups, contributing to widening disparities in food-related ill health. There is a strong body of evidence supporting improved purchase of healthy foods by increasing the healthfulness of the supermarket consumer food environment. Voluntary measures co-designed with retailers to improve the healthfulness of the supermarket consumer food environment through restriction of product placement and private label reformulation have led to an increase in healthier food purchases. However, evidence also shows that mandatory, structural changes are most effective for improving disparities in the access to healthy food. Future research and policy related to the food environment should consider equitable access to healthy sustainable foods in built and online supermarkets.

超市会让选择健康食品变得容易吗?超市食品环境的健康性综述。
过度食用高脂肪、高糖和高盐食品会增加人群超重、肥胖和与饮食有关的非传染性疾病的风险。食品环境调节消费者的食品选择,从而在饮食质量和相关健康结果中发挥重要作用。高收入国家大多数人获取食物的人造食物环境已被发现会导致肥胖。本综述的目的是调查超市食品环境的健康性。超市是人造食品环境中健康食品的重要来源。然而,进入超市的机会存在差异,在一些国家,位于贫困程度较高地区的超市的消费食品环境不健康。这一双重负担限制了社会经济较低群体获得健康食品的机会,导致与食物有关的不健康方面的差距扩大。有大量有力的证据支持通过提高超市消费者食品环境的健康程度来改善健康食品的购买。与零售商共同设计的自愿措施,通过限制产品植入和自有品牌重新配方,改善超市消费者食品环境的健康,导致更健康食品的购买增加。然而,证据也表明,强制性的结构性改革对于改善在获得健康食品和与饮食有关的疾病方面的差距是最有效的。未来与超市食品环境相关的研究和政策应考虑在网上超市增长的背景下公平获得健康可持续食品。
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190
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6-12 weeks
期刊介绍: Proceedings of the Nutrition Society publishes papers and abstracts presented by members and invited speakers at the scientific meetings of The Nutrition Society. The journal provides an invaluable record of the scientific research currently being undertaken, contributing to ''the scientific study of nutrition and its application to the maintenance of human and animal health.'' The journal is of interest to academics, researchers and clinical practice workers in both human and animal nutrition and related fields.
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