ReviewChildren (Basel, Switzerland)2023
The Effects of Food Environment on Obesity in Children: A Systematic Review.
Review in Children (Basel, Switzerland), 2023. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 9 papers.
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9 citing papers in PubMed.
- Beyond genetics: how environmental stressors drive pediatric hypertension risk.Pediatric nephrology (Berlin, Germany) · 2026Review
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- Geospatial Distribution of Food Environments and Their Association with Sociodemographic Factors in Two Mid-Sized Chilean Cities.Nutrients · 2026Observational
- Influence of Food Environment Around Schools on Nutritional Status and Body Mass Index Trajectories Among Children and Adolescents.Nutrients · 2026Article
- Digital Ecosystems, Children, and Adolescents: Technical Report.Pediatrics · 2026Review
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- Association between neighbourhood food environment and dietary quality among adolescents in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.Heliyon · 2025Article
- Exploring the Nexus between Food Systems and the Global Syndemic among Children under Five Years of Age through the Complex Systems Approach.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2024Review
- Food insecurity screening and local food access: Contributions to nutritional outcomes among children and adults with cystic fibrosis in the United States.Journal of cystic fibrosis : official journal of the European Cystic Fibrosis Society · 2024Article
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Abstract
Childhood obesity is an epidemic connected with poor eating. According to the United States Department of Agriculture's Economic Research Service (USDA-ERS), food deserts are geographical locations in which residents have restricted or nonexistent access to healthful and quality food. Restricted access to healthy food is commonly associated with poor nutrition-related health outcomes, including obesity. This review aims to highlight the relationship between residing in a food desert or a similar environment on body mass index (BMI) in school-aged children in North America, predominantly in the Midwest region of the United States and Mexico. In this study, 17 articles were included from PubMed/Medline, Google Scholar, and Crossref. Most of these studies showed no association between the food environment and increased BMI. This discrepancy emphasizes the need for further research; the lack of access to healthful foods in food deserts is an issue that deserves additional attention.
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