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Urban mobile food truck policies
We undertook this study knowing that for people throughout the Midwest who live in low-income urban neighborhoods, finding and affording healthy foods continues to be a problem. People with less money are not only forced to spend it on food, but have so limited options for avoiding purchase of foods with high levels of fat, salt, and sugar. A review of the literature shows that very little is known about how mobile food trucks can increase availability and affordability of healthy foods in low-income neighborhoods in the United States. We compared municipal codes regulating mobile food truck operators and evaluated the impact on cities in the Midwest for encouraging a ‘culture of health.’ We analyzed six Midwest metropolitan areas with the highest proportion of minorities who lived below the poverty level and had mobile food trucks selling provisions in their neighborhoods. We found that developing more incentives for mobile food truck operators to sell healthier food options can contribute to improving health outcomes in low-income neighborhoods.
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Weight Control Intervention for Truck Drivers: The SHIFT Randomized Controlled Trial, United States
Objectives. To evaluate the effectiveness of the Safety and Health Involvement For Truckers (SHIFT) intervention with a randomized controlled design.
Methods. The multicomponent intervention was a weight-loss competition supported with body weight and behavioral self-monitoring, computer-based training, and motivational interviewing. We evaluated intervention effectiveness with a cluster-randomized design involving 22 terminals from 5 companies in the United States in 2012 to 2014. Companies were required to provide interstate transportation services and operate at least 2 larger terminals. We randomly assigned terminals to intervention or usual practice control conditions. We assessed participating drivers (n = 452) at baseline and 6 months.
Results. In an intent-to-treat analysis, the postintervention difference between groups in mean body mass index change was 1.00 kilograms per meters squared (P < .001; intervention = −0.73; control = +0.27). Behavioral changes included statistically significant improvements in fruit and vegetable consumption and physical activity.
Conclusions. Results establish the effectiveness of a multicomponent and remotely administered intervention for producing significant weight loss among commercial truck drivers.
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Transportation of Perishable and Refrigerated Foods in Mylar Foil Bags and Insulated Containers: A Time-Temperature Study
Data are lacking on the temperature changes of food during transport without the use of refrigerated trucks. The purpose of this study was to evaluate the ability of several insulated and noninsulated containers with or without frozen gel packs to keep perishable and refrigerated foods within the temperature safe zone in relationship to duration of transport. The study was designed to duplicate the practices exhibited by customers purchasing perishable food products from a cash-and-carry business. Approximately 40 perishable food items were evaluated. Four types of containers were tested: a mylar foil bag, a commercial insulated bag, a generic insulated bag, and a commercial insulated blanket. Mixed foods were placed into these containers with or without frozen gel packs, transported in unrefrigerated vehicles, and monitored for 4 h for temperature changes. Two environmental temperatures, room temperature of 21.1°C and a stress temperature of 37.8°C, were evaluated. The internal temperature and surface temperature of the food products in these containers increased slowly but remained well below the U.S. Food and Drug Administration Food Code requirements. The various containers were similar in their ability to retain coolness. The presence of frozen gel packs dramatically enhanced the cold-holding capacity of the containers. The temperature of foods increased more rapidly when stressed in a heated environment. The containers tested used with the frozen gel packs can keep the surface and internal temperatures of various perishable foods (starting at 4.4°C or less) within the Food Code recommendation of under 21.1°C for 4 h. Cash-and-carry businesses should strongly encourage their retail customers to utilize these containers with frozen gel packs to safely transport perishable foods.
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Communications Recommendations for Sugar-Sweetened Beverage-Free Zones
Sugar-sweetened beverages (SSBs), which include soda, energy drinks, sweetened juices, and presweetened coffee drinks, are now recognized as a significant factor in overweight, obesity, hypertension, diabetes, heart disease, and cancer and contribute nearly half of all the added sugars in the US diet.1 Internationally, more people now die from being overweight than from underweight.2,3 Because of this crisis, health organizations such as the American Medical Association are increasingly endorsing \"SSB-free zones\" for hospitals, schools, and health centers, where these beverages cannot be sold or consumed on the premises.4 Recently, pediatricians at a community health center in the Bronx, New York, created an SSB-free policy because they were concerned about the numerous young children they witnessed consuming soda and other SSBs in their clinics. [...]they receive a confusing melange of mixed signals. In the Bronx, residents not only have higher-than-average rates of chronic disease but also are exposed to higher-than-average levels of junk food marketing.5 Beverage marketing is ubiquitous in the Bronx, seen on billboards and colorful delivery trucks and in bodegas and vending machines throughout the borough.
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Environmental determinants of obesity-associated morbidity risks for truckers
Purpose - The purpose of this paper is to examine how the transportation environment triggers, exacerbates and sustains truckers' risks for obesity and associated morbidities.Design methodology approach - An extensive literature review of PubMed Central and TRANSPORT databases was conducted on truckers' obesity risks and 120 journal articles were identified for closer evaluation. From these, populations, exposures, and relevant outcomes were evaluated within the framework of the broad transportation environment.Findings - Connections between the transportation environment and truckers' risks for obesity-associated comorbidities were delineated, and an original conceptual framework was developed to illustrate links between the two. This framework addresses links not only between the transportation environment and trucker obesity risks but also with other health strains - applicable to other transport occupational segments. Moreover, it provides direction for preliminary environmental-scale interventions to curb trucker obesity. The utilization of this framework further underscores the need for: an appraisal of the health parameters of trucking worksites; assessment of truckers' obesity-risk trajectories, and examination of potential causality between the transportation environment, inactivity and diet-related morbidities; and the development, implementation and evaluation of interventions to mitigate trucker obesity. While there is a geographic emphasis on North America, data and assertions of this paper are applicable to trucking sectors of many industrialized nations.Originality value - The paper brings to light the influences of the transportation environment on trucker obesity-associated morbidity risks.
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Through the St. Lucie County Mosquito and Coastal Resources Department, the county is collecting and recycling oyster shells from area eateries and rebuilding oyster reefs in the fragile Indian River Lagoon. MICHIGAN Sustaining the Sustainability Effort Located in Grand Rapids, Michigan, the Center for Sustainability (C4S) at Aquinas College is a student-run and faculty-directed organization providing a web-based clearinghouse of information for consumers, business people, nonprofit organizations, students, and governmental agencies interested in sustainable practices.
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