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Kids in a Candy Store: An Objective Analysis of Children’s Interactions with Food in Convenience Stores
Increasing rates of childhood obesity worldwide has focused attention on the obesogenic food environment. This paper reports an analysis of children’s interactions with food in convenience stores. Kids’Cam was a cross-sectional study conducted from July 2014 to June 2015 in New Zealand in which 168...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7400802/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32708485 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/nu12072143 |
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author | McKerchar, Christina Smith, Moira Gage, Ryan Williman, Jonathan Abel, Gillian Lacey, Cameron Ni Mhurchu, Cliona Signal, Louise |
author_facet | McKerchar, Christina Smith, Moira Gage, Ryan Williman, Jonathan Abel, Gillian Lacey, Cameron Ni Mhurchu, Cliona Signal, Louise |
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description | Increasing rates of childhood obesity worldwide has focused attention on the obesogenic food environment. This paper reports an analysis of children’s interactions with food in convenience stores. Kids’Cam was a cross-sectional study conducted from July 2014 to June 2015 in New Zealand in which 168 randomly selected children aged 11–14 years old wore a wearable camera for a 4–day period. In this ancillary study, images from children who visited a convenience store were manually coded for food and drink availability. Twenty-two percent of children (n = 37) visited convenience stores on 62 occasions during the 4-day data collection period. Noncore items dominated the food and drinks available to children at a rate of 8.3 to 1 (means were 300 noncore and 36 core, respectively). The food and drinks marketed in-store were overwhelmingly noncore and promoted using accessible placement, price offers, product packaging, and signage. Most of the 70 items purchased by children were noncore foods or drinks (94.6%), and all of the purchased food or drink subsequently consumed was noncore. This research highlights convenience stores as a key source of unhealthy food and drink for children, and policies are needed to reduce the role of convenience stores in the obesogenic food environment. |
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spelling | pubmed-74008022020-08-07 Kids in a Candy Store: An Objective Analysis of Children’s Interactions with Food in Convenience Stores McKerchar, Christina Smith, Moira Gage, Ryan Williman, Jonathan Abel, Gillian Lacey, Cameron Ni Mhurchu, Cliona Signal, Louise Nutrients Article Increasing rates of childhood obesity worldwide has focused attention on the obesogenic food environment. This paper reports an analysis of children’s interactions with food in convenience stores. Kids’Cam was a cross-sectional study conducted from July 2014 to June 2015 in New Zealand in which 168 randomly selected children aged 11–14 years old wore a wearable camera for a 4–day period. In this ancillary study, images from children who visited a convenience store were manually coded for food and drink availability. Twenty-two percent of children (n = 37) visited convenience stores on 62 occasions during the 4-day data collection period. Noncore items dominated the food and drinks available to children at a rate of 8.3 to 1 (means were 300 noncore and 36 core, respectively). The food and drinks marketed in-store were overwhelmingly noncore and promoted using accessible placement, price offers, product packaging, and signage. Most of the 70 items purchased by children were noncore foods or drinks (94.6%), and all of the purchased food or drink subsequently consumed was noncore. This research highlights convenience stores as a key source of unhealthy food and drink for children, and policies are needed to reduce the role of convenience stores in the obesogenic food environment. MDPI 2020-07-18 /pmc/articles/PMC7400802/ /pubmed/32708485 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/nu12072143 Text en © 2020 by the authors. Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). |
spellingShingle | Article McKerchar, Christina Smith, Moira Gage, Ryan Williman, Jonathan Abel, Gillian Lacey, Cameron Ni Mhurchu, Cliona Signal, Louise Kids in a Candy Store: An Objective Analysis of Children’s Interactions with Food in Convenience Stores |
title | Kids in a Candy Store: An Objective Analysis of Children’s Interactions with Food in Convenience Stores |
title_full | Kids in a Candy Store: An Objective Analysis of Children’s Interactions with Food in Convenience Stores |
title_fullStr | Kids in a Candy Store: An Objective Analysis of Children’s Interactions with Food in Convenience Stores |
title_full_unstemmed | Kids in a Candy Store: An Objective Analysis of Children’s Interactions with Food in Convenience Stores |
title_short | Kids in a Candy Store: An Objective Analysis of Children’s Interactions with Food in Convenience Stores |
title_sort | kids in a candy store: an objective analysis of children’s interactions with food in convenience stores |
topic | Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7400802/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32708485 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/nu12072143 |
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