FAST-FOOD RESTAURANTS: A NEIGHBORHOOD RESOURCE FOR COGNITIVE FUNCTION AMONG AGING AMERICANS?

Neighborhood fast food restaurants and fast food consumption: A national study

BACKGROUND Recent studies suggest that neighborhood fast food restaurant availability is related to greater obesity, yet few studies have investigated whether neighborhood fast food restaurant availability promotes fast food consumption. Our aim was to estimate the effect of neighborhood fast food availability on frequency of fast food consumption in a national sample of young adults, a populat...

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Neighborhood playgrounds, fast food restaurants, and crime: relationships to overweight in low-income preschool children.

BACKGROUND We examined the relationship between overweight in preschool children and three environmental factors--the proximity of the children's residences to playgrounds and to fast food restaurants and the safety of the children's neighborhoods. We hypothesized that children who lived farther from playgrounds, closer to fast food restaurants, and in unsafe neighborhoods were more likely to b...

Proximity of fast food restaurants to schools: do neighborhood income and type of school matter?

OBJECTIVES To investigate the proximity of fast food restaurants to public schools and examine proximity by neighborhood income and school level (elementary, middle, or high school). METHODS Geocoded school and restaurant databases from 2005 and 2003, respectively, were used to determine the percentage of schools with one or more fast food restaurants within 400 m and 800 m of all public scho...

Do adolescents who live or go to school near fast-food restaurants eat more frequently from fast-food restaurants?

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...