Food environment solutions for childhood obesity in Latin America and among Latinos living in the United States
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Durán, Ana Clara
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Food environment solutions for childhood obesity in Latin America and among Latinos living in the United States
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The food environment is a major contributor to unhealthy diets in children and,
therefore, to the increasing rates of obesity. Acclaimed by scholars across the world,
Latin American countries have been leaders in implementing policies that target different
aspects of the food environment. Evidence on the nature and to what extent
children are exposed and respond to unhealthy food environments in the region and
among Latinos in the United States is, however, deficient. The objective of this
review is to use the integrated International Network for Food and Obesity/noncommunicable
diseases (NCDs) Research, Monitoring and Action Support
(INFORMAS) framework to create healthy food environment to (i) compare the key
elements of childhood obesity-related food environments in Latin America and for
Latinos living in the United States; (ii) describe the evidence on solutions to improve
childhood obesity-related food environments; and (iii) identify research priorities to
inform solutions to fight childhood obesity in these populations. We found that an
integrated body of evidence is needed to inform an optimal package of policies to
improve food environments to which children in Latin America and Latino children in
the United States are exposed and more efficiently translate policy solutions to help
curb growing childhood obesity levels across borders.
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Obesity Reviews. 2021;22 (S3):e13237.
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