Food supply and the obesity scourge: Is there a relationship?

作     者：Lillian Mwanri Wendy Foley John Coveney Robert Muller Fiona Verity Paul R. Ward Patricia Carter Philip Mohr Anne Taylor 

作者机构：Department of Social Work Flinders University Adelaide Australia Discipline of Public Health Flinders University Adelaide Australia Health Promotion Branch SA Health Adelaide Australia Inala Indigenous Health Service Queensland Health Inala Australia Population Research and Outcome Studies Unit SA Health Adelaide Australia School of Psychology University of Adelaide Adelaide Australia 

出 版 物：《Health》 (健康（英文）)

年 卷 期：2012年第4卷第12期

页      面：1457-1463页

学科分类：0303[法学-社会学] 1204[管理学-公共管理] 1004[医学-公共卫生与预防医学(可授医学、理学学位)] 1002[医学-临床医学] 100214[医学-肿瘤学] 10[医学] 

主　　题：Obesity Food Supply Food Outlets Socio Economic Status Complex Relationships 

摘      要：This paper reviews literature on the relationship between food supply and obesity. The focus is on the supply, cost, and variety of food through various types of food outlets and the impact of these factors on obesity in developed countries. The article reveals complex relationships between food supply factors and obesity. A numer of factors related to lifestyles including the mobility of populations and the use of motor vehicles greatly reduce the impact of the local environment on family and individual eating patterns. However, obesity is also affected by factors such as the type and density of food outlets, the cost of food, the travel distance and means of transport to the food outlet. While the relationship between food supply and obesity in the literature reveals complex and mixed findings, this paper concludes obesity is complex and food supply is only part of this phenomenon’s predictors. Because the relationship between food supply and obesity is mediated by such multiple and complex factors including population behaviours, beliefs, lifestyles, knowledge and both food and physical environments;multiple strategies including policy development and other strategies aimed at manipulating food environments, physical environments, populations’ beliefs, behaviours and practices must be considered in searching for evidence to effectively combat obesity.