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Nutrition & Dietetics
Ruben Martin-Payo, Maria del Rosario Gonzalez-Moradas, Juan Iturrate-Bobes, Alejandro Fernandez-Sutil, Rafael Cofino, Maria del Mar Fernandez-Alvarez
Summary: Overweight and obesity rates have increased globally, with the marketing strategies of unhealthy food exacerbating the problem. This study aimed to assess advertisements around public and concerted schools in three cities in northern Spain, categorizing them as healthy or unhealthy and analyzing the types of food and beverages advertised. The results showed a significant amount of discretionary product advertisements targeting children in these schools, highlighting the need for regulation.
Review
Endocrinology & Metabolism
Alexandra Chung, Christina Zorbas, Devorah Riesenberg, Ainslie Sartori, Kelly Kennington, Jaithri Ananthapavan, Kathryn Backholer
Summary: Unhealthy food marketing can influence people's preferences and consumption, and should be restricted by government policies; Existing studies mainly focus on advertising prevalence, but lack evaluation of the impact of implemented policies; Policy implementation requires collaboration, leadership, and overcoming industry lobbying, among other factors.
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Public, Environmental & Occupational Health
Alexander Wray, Gina Martin, Sean Doherty, Jason Gilliland
Summary: This study compares smartphone GPS, shortest network path mobility, and buffer-based approaches for estimating exposure to outdoor food and beverage advertising among teenagers. The results show significant differences in advertising exposure estimates and their relationship to self-reported purchasing. The buffer and observed GPS approaches deliver the best fitting models depending on the type of retail food outlet.
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Public, Environmental & Occupational Health
Oumy Erica Wie Dia, Anne Lene Lovhaug, Peter Milton Rukundo, Liv Elin Torheim
Summary: The study found a high prevalence of unhealthy food and beverage advertisements around schools in urban and peri-urban areas of Kampala city, with sugar-sweetened beverages and alcoholic beverages being the most advertised products.
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Public, Environmental & Occupational Health
Curtis Jalen Antrum, Molly E. Waring, Juliana F. W. Cohen, Kristen Cooksey Stowers
Summary: Previous studies have found associations between dining out, fast food, and poor diet quality, as well as living in a food swamp and increased risk of obesity. This study examined the marketing environment of fast food restaurants using the EAT tool to understand its potential influence on food choice. The study did not find differences in unhealthy advertisements based on food swamp status. Future research should explore other factors of the food swamp environment and additional factors like television or social media to understand their association with food choice.
PREVENTIVE MEDICINE REPORTS
(2023)
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Computer Science, Information Systems
Meng Huang, Zhixiang Fang, Robert Weibel, Tao Zhang, Haosheng Huang
Summary: Digital billboards have become increasingly popular as a new form of outdoor advertising due to their innovative way of control over when and where specific ads appear. This study proposes three optimization models to meet advertising needs, which were successfully tested in a case study in Wuxue, China. The research shows that the proposed models are effective in providing an optimal solution for digital billboard configuration with a greater coverage of the target audience and environment.
INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF GEOGRAPHICAL INFORMATION SCIENCE
(2021)
Review
Public, Environmental & Occupational Health
Amy Finlay, Eric Robinson, Andrew Jones, Michelle Maden, Caroline Cerny, Magdalena Muc, Rebecca Evans, Harriet Makin, Emma Boyland
Summary: This review examines the extent and impact of outdoor food marketing and highlights the need for consistency in defining and measuring it. The majority of studies were conducted in high-income countries, and the evidence on differences in exposure by socioeconomic status is inconclusive. There is limited evidence on the relationship between outdoor food marketing and eating behavior or health outcomes. Future research should focus on measuring the direct impacts of outdoor food marketing on behavior and health.
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Engineering, Manufacturing
Kimia Keshanian, Narayan Ramasubbu, Kaushik Dutta
Summary: Physical retailers use mobile location-based advertising to attract potential customers to improve their sales. We propose a campaign design framework that considers the cost and effects of targeting data on the performance of mobile advertising campaigns. Our case study suggests that the optimal attributes for targeting potential customers of a retail store vary based on their distance from the store, and using all or a naive subset of data attributes for targeted advertising results in lower return on investments compared to our proposed approach. Our findings provide implications for the design and deployment of mobile advertising campaigns and further research on targeted advertising.
PRODUCTION AND OPERATIONS MANAGEMENT
(2023)
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Green & Sustainable Science & Technology
Izabela Karolina Horos, Tonia Ruppenthal
Summary: The study reveals that the main causes of food waste in grocery retail stores in the surveyed region are expiration dates, spoilage, consumer purchasing behavior, and over-ordering. Effective food waste prevention strategies developed by store owners include optimizing sales and management strategies, as well as redistributing surplus food to food banks and employees.
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Public, Environmental & Occupational Health
Nan Lei, Zechen Liu, Lin Xiang, Lihong Ye, Juan Zhang
Summary: This study assessed F&B ads on television during the Chinese New Year holiday in Beijing targeted at children aged 4-14 years. More than 55% of the ads were classified as unhealthy for children, with savory snacks, milk drinks, and cakes/sweet biscuits being the most frequently advertised categories. Unhealthy F&B ads were more likely to use promotional characters, brand benefit claims, and health claims than permitted F&B ads.
Article
Public, Environmental & Occupational Health
Monique Potvin Kent, Elise Pauze, Mariangela Bagnato, Julia Soares Guimaraes, Adena Pinto, Lauren Remedios, Meghan Pritchard, Mary R. L'Abbe, Christine Mulligan, Laura Vergeer, Madyson Weippert
Summary: Despite a slight drop in national food and beverage advertising spending between 2016 and 2019, most products or brands being advertised are unhealthy. Expenditures across all media should continue to be monitored to assess Canada's nutrition environment and track changes in food advertising over time.
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Nutrition & Dietetics
Siyao Zhu, Cassandra Mitsinikos, Lisa Poirier, Takeru Igusa, Joel Gittelsohn
Summary: The study aimed to assist city policy makers in Baltimore MD as they considered implementing a Staple Food Ordinance (SFO) to improve food access for low-income populations, using a System Dynamics (SD) model to simulate the complex food environment and optimize key decision variables. The simulations showed that a well-designed SFO could potentially reduce food costs, increase store profits, decrease food waste, and expand the healthy food market.
Article
Nutrition & Dietetics
Monique Potvin Kent, Julia Soares Guimaraes, Mariangela Bagnato, Lauren Remedios, Elise Pauze, Meghan Pritchard, David Wu, Mary 'Abbe, Christine Mulligan, Laura Vergeer, Madyson Weippert
Summary: This study compares the extent and power of food and beverage advertising on television to children in Ontario and Quebec. The findings show that on average, children are exposed to 3.7 to 4.4 food and beverage ads per day, with fast-food advertising being the highest. The majority of advertised products are classified as unhealthy, indicating the need for federal-level regulations to protect children across Canada.
JOURNAL OF NUTRITION
(2023)
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Environmental Studies
Junyi Wang, Derek T. T. Robinson
Summary: Despite challenges in acquiring proprietary sales data, there is a wealth of literature using different types of data to understand or represent drivers of retail store sales. This study analyzes the relative influence of road networks, demographic, and suitability variables on store sales and demonstrates that road network patterns have a greater impact than demographic and suitability variables in predicting store sales. The analysis builds on previous research estimating consumer spending and incorporates spatial interaction models and other unique criteria typically used in isolation, showing the critical role of network patterns in retail store sales.
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Public, Environmental & Occupational Health
Shannon N. Zenk, Yu Li, Julien Leider, Andrea A. Pipito, Lisa M. Powell
Summary: The study found that implementing sugar-sweetened beverage taxes does not have long-term effects on store marketing practices.
