Change in the food environment and measured adiposity in adulthood in the Christchurch Health and development birth cohort, Aotearoa, New Zealand: A birth cohort study

Matthew Hobbs; Geraldine F.H. McLeod; Joreintje D. Mackenbach; Lukas Marek; Jesse Wiki; Bingyu Deng; Phoebe Eggleton; Joseph M. Boden; Dhakal Bhubaneswor; Malcolm Campbell; L. John Horwood

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Change in the food environment and measured adiposity in adulthood in the Christchurch Health and development birth cohort, Aotearoa, New Zealand: A birth cohort study

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Change in the food environment and measured adiposity in adulthood in the Christchurch Health and development birth cohort, Aotearoa, New Zealand: A birth cohort study

Matthew Hobbs, Geraldine F.H. McLeod, Joreintje D. Mackenbach, Lukas Marek, Jesse Wiki, Bingyu Deng, Phoebe Eggleton, Joseph M. Boden, Dhakal Bhubaneswor, Malcolm Campbell, …

Health & place, Vol.83(1), 103078

01/09/2023

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.healthplace.2023.103078

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Cohort study

Fast-food

Food environment

Geographical information systems

Longitudinal

Supermarket

This study investigated associations between change in the food environment and change in measured body mass index (BMI) and waist circumference (WC) in the Christchurch Health and Development Study (CHDS) birth cohort. Our findings suggest that cohort members who experienced the greatest proportional change towards better access to fast food outlets had the slightly larger increases in BMI and WC. Contrastingly, cohort members who experienced the greatest proportional change towards shorter distance and better access to supermarkets had slightly smaller increases in BMI and WC. Our findings may help explain the changes in BMI and WC at a population level. • Access to food is increasingly deemed an important factor for population-level adiposity. • We use a birth cohort study from New Zealand with measured adiposity outcomes. • Cohort members were linked to how their food environment changed. • Changing food access may help explain the changes in BMI and WC at a population level.

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Record Identifier: 9926495344401891
Title: Change in the food environment and measured adiposity in adulthood in the Christchurch Health and development birth cohort, Aotearoa, New Zealand: A birth cohort study
Creators: Matthew Hobbs
Geraldine F.H. McLeod
Joreintje D. Mackenbach
Lukas Marek
Jesse Wiki
Bingyu Deng
Phoebe Eggleton
Joseph M. Boden
Dhakal Bhubaneswor
Malcolm Campbell
L. John Horwood
Publication Details: Health & place, Vol.83(1), 103078
Academic Unit: Christchurch Health and Development Study; Psychological Medicine (UOC)
Publisher: Elsevier
Grant note: MH receives funding from the New Zealand Health Research Council, IStar and A Better Start National Science Challenge and Cure Kids. JDM's work was funded by an NWO VENI grant on “Making the healthy choice easier – role of the local food environment” (grant number 451-17-032). CHDS is funded by Health Research Council of New Zealand Program Grant 16/600. JW is funded by the Ministry of Business, Innovation and Employment (MBIE) Science Whitinga Fellowship.
Date published ; e-published: 01/09/2023
Copyright: Copyright © The Author(s) 2025. This work was first published in Health & Place (Elsevier). This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/), which permits non-commercial use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly attributed to the creator(s) and the source, is not altered, transformed, or built upon in any way, and a link to the Creative Commons license is provided.
Language: English
Resource Type ; Subtype: Journal article