#428: Food Environments

Sigma Nutrition Radio

Danny Lennon

Sigma, Dietetics, Evidencebased, Nutrition, Training, Health & Fitness, Science, Diet, Fitness, Evidence, Bodybuilding, Health

4.8 • 626 Ratings

🗓️ 2 March 2022

⏱️ 89 minutes

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Clearly the food choices one makes over time directly impacts health. However, choices are not made in a vacuum; that is, they are not always concious decisions made for rational reasons based on free will. Rather, the choices we make about food are shaped by the contexts within which they are made. The term "food environment" is used to describe the physical, economic, political and socio-cultural contexts in which choices are made about acquiring, preparing and consuming food.

As it was put in a paper published as part of The Lancet series on Obesity (2015), modern food environments "exploit people's biological, psychological, social, and economic vulnerability, making it easier for them to eat unhealthy foods".

In this episode the Sigma team discuss the implications of this, including a discussion of exactly which environmental conditions impact food choices and the evidence that exists for public health policy that may address the problematic aspects of modern food environments.

Topics:

Intro to food environment [01:47]
Food preferences [11:50]
Disposable income/eat well guidelines [39:55]
What can we do for a healthier population overall? Top down/bottom up [46:14
Different types of public policy interventions [58:42]
Stealth interventions [01:07:24]

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1:32.1	Hello and welcome to another episode of Sigma Nutrition Radio.
1:36.4	My name is Danny Lennon.
1:37.7	I'm here alongside Dr. Neve Aspel and Alan Flanagan, soon to be Dr. Alan Flanagan,
1:43.9	and then I'll be the Mr. Danny Lennon,
1:46.5	still left over. But we today are going to be talking about everything to do with the food
1:50.7	environment. So are you guys looking forward to this particular conversation? Yeah, I think
1:56.0	it's going to be a good one that I've just really gotten into the literature on it in the last couple of weeks as well.
2:01.9	So yeah, it's really interesting and I'm excited to have a chat about it.
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