A recent study in the Journal of Nutrition Education and Behavior, published by Elsevier, highlights the significant influence of the home food environment on adolescent dietary patterns compared to ...

Hala Ghattas is a health promotion, education, and behavior associate professor at the University of South Carolina's Arnold School of Public Health. “Over the last decades, childhood overweight and ...

Living close to pubs, bars and fast-food restaurats may lead to a higher risk of heart failure, according to new research published today in Circulation: Heart Failure, an American Heart Association ...

Consumers are often blamed for making the wrong food choices. But growing evidence appears to be demonstrating that individual choices are actually shaped by their food environments. These ...

At a time of growing food insecurity, a Canadian research team has created a new instrument for determining how plentiful, affordable and healthy the food sold in grocery stores is.

A major review in Frontiers in Science highlights how tackling unsustainable food systems—reflected by our changing food environment—is urgent for both health and climate. The paper reviews evidence ...

A new report shows that food environments, from promotional offers to the placement of food in shops, can influence consumers to make less healthy and less sustainable food choices. The report, from ...