Environmental and societal factors affect food choice and physical activity: Rationale, influences, and leverage points
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Booth, Sarah L, et al. Environmental and Societal Factors Affect Food Choice and Physical Activity: Rationale, Influences, and Leverage Points. 2001. https://doi.org/10.17615/swm6-0725APA
Booth, S., Sallis, J., Ritenbaugh, C., Hill, J., Birch, L., Frank, L., Glanz, K., Himmelgreen, D., Mudd, M., Popkin, B., Rickard, K., St. Jeor, S., & Hays, N. (2001). Environmental and societal factors affect food choice and physical activity: Rationale, influences, and leverage points. https://doi.org/10.17615/swm6-0725Chicago
Booth, Sarah L., James F Sallis, Cheryl Ritenbaugh, James O Hill, Leann L Birch, Lawrence D Frank, Karen Glanz et al. 2001. Environmental and Societal Factors Affect Food Choice and Physical Activity: Rationale, Influences, and Leverage Points. https://doi.org/10.17615/swm6-0725- Creator
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Booth, Sarah L.
- Other Affiliation: Vitamin K Laboratory, Jean Mayer USDA Human Nutrition Research Center on Aging at Tufts University, Boston, MA
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Sallis, James F.
- Other Affiliation: Department of Psychology, San Diego State University, San Diego, CA
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Ritenbaugh, Cheryl
- Other Affiliation: Kaiser Permanente Center for Health Research, Portland, OR
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Hill, James O.
- Other Affiliation: Center for Human Nutrition, University of Colorado Health Sciences Center, Denver, CO
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Birch, Leann L.
- Other Affiliation: Department of Human Development and Family Studies, Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA
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Frank, Lawrence D.
- Other Affiliation: College of Architecture, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA
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Glanz, Karen
- Other Affiliation: Cancer Research Center of Hawaii, University of Hawaii, Honolulu, HI
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Himmelgreen, David A.
- Other Affiliation: Department of Anthropology, University of South Florida, Tampa, FL
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Mudd, Michael
- Other Affiliation: Corporate Affairs, Kraft Foods, Inc., Northfield, IL
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Popkin, Barry
- Affiliation: College of Arts and Sciences, Department of Psychology and Neuroscience
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Rickard, Karyl A.
- Other Affiliation: Nutrition and Dietetics Program, School of Allied Health Sciences, Indiana University School of Medicine, Indianapolis, IN
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St. Jeor, Sachiko
- Other Affiliation: Nutrition Education and Research Program, University of Nevada School of Medicine, Reno, NV
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Hays, Nicholas P.
- Other Affiliation: Energy Metabolism Laboratory, Jean Mayer USDA Human Nutrition Research Center on Aging at Tufts University, Boston, MA
- Abstract
- Dietary and physical activity behaviors that affect health are influenced by a wide variety of forces; changes in these behaviors require interventions and commitment to action at multiple levels.l.2 Education-based obesity-prevention strategies (e.g., mass-media promotion of healthy foods and promotion of healthy physical activity habits through schools) are viewed as the most useful and the most feasible to im~lementIm.~p licit in these strategies is the focus on the individual? Education-based strategies have met with limited long-term success in changing behavior: however, perhaps owing to a general lack of supporting environmental modifications. There is increasing recognition of the importance of the environment in shaping behavior, yet strategies that focus on changing environmental factors are much less familiar, and may therefore require partnerships with relevant sectors outside traditional health domains. As described in greater detail by Economos et al.: partnerships among researchers, educators, government, and industry have demonstrated success in smoking reduction at the population level. Interventions such as taxation and advertisement regulations have been instrumental in promoting smoking cessation in the United States and are used by agriculture and agribusiness interests to promote specific food consumption patterns. Similar models of collaborations or interventions may be successful in changing food intake and physical activity, and may potentially result in such desirable outcomes as prevention and reduction of obesity.6 It is important to appreciate the interaction among multiple environmental factors and that complex behavior changes are dependent on different influences at different levels. In Working Group 11, we took on the task of identifying broader contextual, environmental, societal, and policy variables that may improve our understanding of people's eating and physical activity behaviors and may lead to new directions for influencing shifts in behavior. Ecologic models of behavior, and most health promotion models, specify that health behaviors be influenced by biologic, demographic, psychological, sociaYcultura1, environmental, and policy variables. However, the research base that identifies specific important environmental and policy variables is very limited.'.""' Nevertheless, there are several reasons that support the need to identify environmental and policy influences on physical activity and eating behaviors.
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- 2001
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- doi:10.1111/j.1753-4887.2001.tb06983.x
- 2-s2.0-0035053469
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- Conference Proceeding
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- Journal title
- Nutrition Reviews
- Journal volume
- 59
- Journal issue
- 3
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- S21
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- S36
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- Postprint
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- 1753-4887
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- English
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