But, generally, supermarket and grocery store availability close
to home is unrelated to diet WEDNESDAY, July 13 (HealthDay News)
-- Availability of supermarket and grocery stores close to home
is generally unrelated to diet, but low-income respondents may
be sensitive to fast food availability, particularly for men
with fast food chains located within 1.00 to 2.99 km of home,
according to a study published in the July 11 issue of the
Archives of Internal Medicine. Janne Boone-Heinonen, Ph.D., from
the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and colleagues
investigated the influence of fast food chain, neighborhood
supermarkets, and grocery store availability on fast food
consumption, diet quality, and fruit and vegetable consumption
in longitudinal data collected over 15 years from 5,115 adults
aged 18 to 30 years at baseline. These eating habits were
modeled based on the distance to fast food chains, supermarkets,
and grocery stores (less than 1.00 km, 1.00 to 2.99 km, 3.00 to
4.99 km, and 5.00 to 8.05