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Preventive medicine reports | Vol.2, Issue.C | 2017-05-30 | Pages

Community food environment measures in the Alabama Black Belt: Implications for cancer risk reduction

Rebecca Gyawu,Joseph E. Quansah,Souleymane Fall,Peter N. Gichuhi

Abstract

In-store measures were utilized to evaluate the availability of healthy food choices and nutrition/health promotion messages for cancer risk reduction in the selected Alabama Black Belt counties/cities. Sixty one retail food outlets (RFOs) were audited in 12 Alabama Black Belt cities. Store types included convenience stores (49.2%), restaurants (19.7%), fast food restaurants (16.4%), small supermarkets (8.2%), and large supermarket and farmers' markets (3.3 %), respectively. Although there were low numbers of farmers' markets/street stands and large supermarkets, these had significantly (p

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food choices cancer risk reduction nutritionhealth

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Rebecca Gyawu,Joseph E. Quansah,Souleymane Fall,Peter N. Gichuhi,.Community food environment measures in the Alabama Black Belt: Implications for cancer risk reduction. 2 (C),.

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