Take a mental wander around your neighborhood: What do you see? Are there sidewalks to stroll on? Which is closer, a convenience store, fast food restaurant or a grocery store? Depending on your ...

The obesogenic quality of the home environment is hypothesised to play an important role in children’s weight development but few prospective studies have investigated relationships between the home ...

Maintaining a ‘healthy’ body weight is crucial for survival and involves a partially understood regulatory system that adjusts energy intake and energy output (expenditure and losses) for that purpose ...

While the neighborhood environment has an impact on obesity and obesity is a major risk factor for breast cancer, the impact of obesogenic environmental factors on breast cancer risk has not been well ...

In public health research, like obesity studies, spatial technologies can add very valuable information. Combining remote sensing, geo-information systems and GPS will enable us to identify typical ...

Public health officials focus considerable energy on combating obesogenic environments that promote excessive eating and inactivity. Numerous factors exist in our society that shape our environment ...

“These decisions reflect a broader, emerging worldview promoted by what I call ‘Germ Deniers’ — individuals and groups who question or outright reject the established scientific understanding of how ...