"Improved food access through establishment of a full-service food retailer, by itself, does not show strong evidence towards enhancing health-related outcomes

"Improved food access through establishment of a full-service food retailer, by itself, does not show strong evidence towards enhancing health-related outcomes over short durations." -- https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/28566095/ https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/28566095/ "Initiatives to build supermarkets in low-income areas with relatively poor access to large food retailers (“food deserts”) have been implemented at all levels of government, although evaluative studies have not found these projects to improve diet or weight status for shoppers" -- https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4899338/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4899338/ "Living in a food desert census tract was not significantly associated with BMI" -- https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5615612/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5615612/ "Using a prospective controlled quasi-experimental design we evaluate the impact on Body Mass Index, fruit and vegetable intake and perceptions of food access, of increasing neighborhood supermarket provision in one community in Philadelphia. This increase in provision was one part of the wider public-private Pennsylvania Fresh Food Financing Initiative. The intervention moderately increased perceptions of food access, but did not lead to changes in fruit and vegetable intake or BMI." -- https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4201352/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4201352/ "We found no evidence that the absolute or relative accessibility of supermarkets, fast food restaurants, or mass merchandisers were associated with individual BMI change" -- https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5895451/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5895451/