Review
Endocrinology & Metabolism
Jasmine Chan, Emma McMahon, Julie Brimblecombe
Summary: Providing information at the point-of-sale to identify healthier/less healthy products is recognized as a potential strategy for improving population diet. Interventions using shelf-labels or technology showed positive effects on healthier food purchasing behavior. However, further research is needed on discouraging unhealthy food consumption.
Review
Nutrition & Dietetics
Sarah Richardson, Lorraine McSweeney, Suzanne Spence
Summary: This systematic review examines the availability of healthy food and beverages in hospitals and identifies interventions that positively impact the hospital food environment. Through the analysis of 40 relevant publications, it concludes that the overall quality of hospital food environments varies. Educational, labelling, financial, and choice architecture interventions are shown to improve the hospital food environment and/or dietary intake of consumers.
Review
Nutrition & Dietetics
Emanuele Rinninella, Pauline Raoul, Valeria Maccauro, Marco Cintoni, Andrea Cambieri, Alberto Fiore, Maurizio Zega, Antonio Gasbarrini, Maria Cristina Mele
Summary: This systematic review examined the impact of different hospital services on patients' nutritional intake and food waste. The findings suggest that personalized food service and efficient room service can improve nutritional intake while reducing food waste. In addition, active monitoring and intervention by clinical nutritionists, especially dietitians, can increase patients' food consumption.
Review
Public, Environmental & Occupational Health
Jacqueline Chan, Patrick Conroy, Philayrath Phongsavan, David Raubenheimer, Margaret Allman-Farinelli
Summary: The implementation and long-term impact of early childhood nutrition interventions remain a challenge. Understanding the factors at different levels of the food system that contribute to dietary intake and eating behaviors can improve the success of interventions.
PREVENTIVE MEDICINE
(2023)
Article
Engineering, Environmental
Benjamin van Selm, Hannah H. E. van Zanten, Renske Hijbeek, Corina E. van Middelaar, Marijke Schop, Martin K. van Ittersum, Imke J. M. de Boer
Summary: Applying circularity interventions to the food system can reduce land use and greenhouse gas emissions. Changes in human diets, imports, exports, and waste utilisation can have significant environmental benefits.
Article
Public, Environmental & Occupational Health
Ana Isabel Rodriguez-Guerra, Nancy Lopez-Olmedo, Catalina Medina, Cesar Hernandez-Alcaraz, Ana G. Ortega-Avila, Simon Barquera
Summary: Evidence suggests that there is a connection between retail stores and food consumption. However, research on this topic is still scarce in low- and medium-income countries, where the food retail environment differs from that of high-income countries. Specifically, little is known about how convenience and small grocery stores, which provide immediate access to products, are associated with overall diet quality. This study aimed to assess the association between the density of convenience and small grocery stores and the diet quality of adults in Mexico City.
FRONTIERS IN PUBLIC HEALTH
(2022)
Review
Nutrition & Dietetics
Eden M. Barrett, Ashleigh C. Hart, Saiuj Bhat, Matti Marklund, Daisy H. Coyle, Maddie Heenan, Simone Pettigrew, Jason HY. Wu
Summary: This study examined the impact of retail food environment interventions on the dietary behavior of students and staff in postsecondary education settings. The findings suggest that these interventions have a positive effect on improving dietary behaviors.
JOURNAL OF NUTRITION
(2023)
Article
Environmental Sciences
Dyfed Rhys Morgan, David Styles, Eifiona Thomas Lane
Summary: This study assesses the environmental impact of packaging and distribution in the life cycle of micro-brewed beer and proposes three mitigation options. The findings show that by changing from single use glass bottles to aluminium cans or reusable glass bottles and using trucks for distribution, participating breweries can achieve reductions across multiple impact categories. However, implementing reusable glass bottles would require significant investment and coordination.
JOURNAL OF ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT
(2022)
Article
Health Policy & Services
Darcy A. Freedman, Bethany A. Bell, Jill Clark, David Ngendahimana, Elaine Borawski, Erika Trapl, Stephanie Pike, Ashwini R. Sehgal
Summary: The study found that the low-dose implementation of a food hub led to small improvements in the availability of healthy foods, but did not significantly impact residents' dietary patterns. Implementing a food hub in low-income neighborhoods with low access to healthy food retailers presents challenges, including the full implementation of components and reaching a broader impact.
JOURNAL OF COMMUNITY HEALTH
(2021)
Article
Engineering, Environmental
Christopher Malefors, Niina Sundin, Malou Tromp, Mattias Eriksson
Summary: This study tested four interventions (tasting spoons, awareness campaign, plate waste tracker and guest forecasting tool) designed to reduce food waste in Swedish school canteens. All interventions successfully reduced total food waste, with the awareness campaign reducing plate waste the most, and the forecasting and plate waste tracker interventions reducing serving waste the most.
RESOURCES CONSERVATION AND RECYCLING
(2022)
Article
Public, Environmental & Occupational Health
Sadaf Mollaei, Goretty M. Dias, Leia M. Minaker
Summary: This study aimed to develop and test a tool to assess the price and availability of low-carbon footprint and nutritionally balanced dietary patterns in retail food environments in Ontario, Canada. The tool showed high inter-rater reliability for both price and availability, with 78% of selected food items available in all stores. Price differences were small between urban and rural locations, with the greatest difference observed between discount and regular stores.
PUBLIC HEALTH NUTRITION
(2021)
Article
Engineering, Environmental
Yu Luo, Jiaying Zhao
Summary: Plastic pollution is a significant challenge, and current policies have focused on plastic bags while neglecting produce bags. We conducted an experiment with 12 behavioral interventions to reduce produce bag use, and each intervention successfully reduced usage by 9.2% to 48.7% compared to the control group. The most effective interventions included indirect incentives or punishments, reminding people of the positive consequences, normative messaging, drawing attention to the no bag option, and reminding the negative consequences. These interventions had varying effects on different political affiliations. This study provides new evidence for effective interventions to reduce plastic pollution through decreased produce bag use.
RESOURCES CONSERVATION AND RECYCLING
(2023)
Review
Nutrition & Dietetics
Judith de Vries-ten Have, Renate M. Winkels, Ellen Kampman, Laura H. H. Winkens
Summary: Background lifestyle interventions targeting dietary and physical activity behaviors may have an impact on cancer-related fatigue in cancer survivors, but it can be especially challenging for survivors suffering from cancer-related fatigue to change their lifestyle. Behavior change techniques can enhance the effectiveness of lifestyle interventions. This review aims to systematically describe the application of behavior change techniques in lifestyle interventions for cancer-related fatigue among cancer survivors who have completed primary treatment.
INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF BEHAVIORAL NUTRITION AND PHYSICAL ACTIVITY
(2023)
Article
Agriculture, Multidisciplinary
Robert B. Richardson, Laura Schmitt Olabisi, Kurt B. Waldman, Naomi Sakana, Nathan G. Brugnone
Summary: The study found that sustainable intensification practices did not impact agricultural encroachment into forested ecosystems, with the clearing of forested land for agriculture being primarily driven by rising demand for wood fuels, particularly charcoal in urban areas. The research has implications for integrated approaches to food and energy insecurity challenges, as well as for national policies aimed at climate change mitigation and reducing greenhouse gas emissions. This study offers a unique approach to integrating social and biophysical/ecological data using system dynamics modeling, contributing to the literature on environmental implications of agricultural land use and deforestation drivers.
AGRICULTURAL SYSTEMS
(2021)
Article
Public, Environmental & Occupational Health
Gianluca Voglino, Ernestina Parente, Fabrizio Bert, Giuseppina Lo Moro, Alessio Corradi, Monica Lapiccirella, Maria Rosaria Gualano, Roberta Siliquini
Summary: The study found that OSCs were more likely to test positive for Orthorexia Nervosa symptoms on the ORTO-15 compared to non-OSCs, with a prevalence of 69.4% for OSCs and 23.1% for non-OSCs. OSCs also reported higher EHQ scores. Potential predictors mainly included being an OSC or following food restrictions.
PSYCHOLOGY HEALTH & MEDICINE
(2021)