Effect of mobile food environments on fast food visits

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García Bulle Bueno, Bernardo and Horn, Abigail L. and Bell, Brooke M. and Bahrami, Mohsen and Bozkaya, Burçin and Pentland, Alex and De la Haye, Kayla and Moro, Esteban (2024) Effect of mobile food environments on fast food visits. Nature Communications, 15 (1). ISSN 2041-1723

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Abstract

Poor diets are a leading cause of morbidity and mortality. Exposure to low-quality food environments saturated with fast food outlets is hypothesized to negatively impact diet. However, food environment research has predominantly focused on static food environments around home neighborhoods and generated mixed findings. In this work, we leverage population-scale mobility data in the U.S. to examine 62M people’s visits to food outlets and evaluate how food choice is influenced by the food environments people are exposed to as they move through their daily routines. We find that a 10% increase in exposure to fast food outlets in mobile environments increases individuals’ odds of visitation by 20%. Using our results, we simulate multiple policy strategies for intervening on food environments to reduce fast-food outlet visits. This analysis suggests that optimal interventions are informed by spatial, temporal, and behavioral features and could have 2x to 4x larger effect than traditional interventions focused on home food environments.
Item Type: Article
Divisions: Sabancı Business School
Depositing User: Burçin Bozkaya
Date Deposited: 09 Jun 2024 20:50
Last Modified: 09 Jun 2024 20:50
URI: https://research.sabanciuniv.edu/id/eprint/49232

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