Background. This report examines psychosocial factors related to selection of healthful diets.
Understanding why people select healthful diets can lead to rational design and evaluation …

Background Physical inactivity has been associated with obesity and related chronic
diseases. Understanding built environment (BE) influences on specific domains of physical …

Much progress has been made in the past 5 to 10 years in measuring and understanding
the impact of the food and physical activity environments on behavioral outcomes …

OBJECTIVE: Obesity and other diet-related chronic diseases affect American Indians at high
rates, yet little is known about food use behaviors in this population, or of psychosocial …

Objective To elucidate the perceived health benefits of an urban home gardening and
nutritional education program in a population at high cardiometabolic risk. Design …

Obesity is a major public health concern in the US Some African-American subgroups
disproportionately bear the burden of the obesity epidemic, with the prevalence of …

ObjectiveTo examine national patterns in cooking frequency and diet quality among adults
in the USA, overall and by weight-loss intention. DesignAnalysis of cross-sectional 24 h …

Over the course of the past century, the quantity of prepackaged, pre-prepared foods
available in the North American context has increased dramatically. This study examines the …

The food related lifestyle (FRL) model, widely used on European data, is applied to US data
using a modified survey instrument to examine organic and local food consumption. Since …

Objective: To examine diet quality and dietary intake among residents of disadvantaged
neighborhoods in the Southeast United States (US) and to examine associations between …