Understanding the healthfulness of outlets providing lunch and dinner meals: a census of a rural food retail environment in Victoria, Australia.

CONCLUSIONS: This census of a rural food retail environment showed low access to healthy menu options along with minimal provision of nutrition information and promotion of healthy food in food venues. This environment has the potential to affect the dietary intake of more than 21,000 rural-dwelling Australians and action to improve rural food environments is desperately needed. Implications for public health: If unhealthful rural food environments are not addressed, inequalities in the diet-related disease burden for rural Australians will continue to persist. This study shows that interventions are needed for independent venues that could be targeted by researchers, local health promotion officers, community nutritionists or community education programs.
PMID: 33347675 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]

Source: Australian and New Zealand Journal of Public Health - December 21, 2020 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Authors: Alston L, Versace V, Brown E, Nichols M, Whelan J, Bolton KA, Sacks G, Needham C, Orellana L, Allender S Tags: Aust N Z J Public Health Source Type: research