Do Adolescents Who Live or Go to School Near Fast-Food Restaurants Eat More Frequently from Fast-Food Restaurants?

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Title
Do Adolescents Who Live or Go to School Near Fast-Food Restaurants Eat More Frequently from Fast-Food Restaurants?
Description
This population-based study examined whether residential or school neighborhood access to fast food restaurants is related to adolescents' eating frequency of fast food. A classroom-based survey of racially/ethnically diverse adolescents (n=2724) in 20 secondary schools in Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota was used to assess eating frequency at five types of fast food restaurants. Black, Hispanic, and Native American adolescents lived near more fast food restaurants than white and Asian adolescents and also ate at fast food restaurants more often. After controlling for individual-level socio-demographics, adolescent males living near high numbers fast food restaurants ate more frequently from these venues compared to their peers.
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Creator
Forsyth, Ann
Wall, Melanie
Larson, Nicole
Story, Mary
Neumark-Sztainer, Dianne
Subject
Fast food
Restaurants
Neighborhood
School
Adolescents
Publisher
Elsevier BV
Date
2014-08-01T19:49:06Z
2012
2014-08-01T19:49:06Z
Type
Journal Article
Format
application/pdf
Identifier
Forsyth, Ann, Melanie Wall, Nicole Larson, Mary Story, and Dianne Neumark-Sztainer. 2012. Do Adolescents Who Live or Go to School Near Fast-Food Restaurants Eat More Frequently from Fast-Food Restaurants? Health & Place 18, no. 6: 1261–1269.
1353-8292
1873-2054
http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:HUL.InstRepos:12638507
10.1016/j.healthplace.2012.09.005
Language
en_US
Relation
doi:10.1016/j.healthplace.2012.09.005
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3501600/pdf/nihms408389.pdf
Health & Place