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Findings from S. Cummins and co-authors provide new insights into life sciences

Published in Obesity and Diabetes Week, February 1st, 2010

In this recent article published in the journal Preventive Medicine, scientists in London, the United Kingdom conducted a study "To assess the validity of a publicly available list of food stores through field observations of their existence, in order to contribute to research on neighbourhood food environments and health. All multiple-owned supermarkets, and a 1 in 8 sample of other food outlets, listed in 1997 and 2007 in the public register of food premises held by Glasgow City Council, Scotland. were visited to establish whether they were trading as foodstores."

"Postcode sectors in which foodstores were located were classified into least, middling and most...

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