New Delhi, Dec. 18 -- The significance of a healthy food environment is manifold. The food environment shapes the food habits and choices of people. A healthy food environment supports everyone in making healthy food choices, and needless to say, an unhealthy one may result in several negative outcomes and diet-related issues.

A recent study published in the journal Health & Place aimed at finding out how difficult it would be for others to sustain the Mediterranean and Dietary Approaches to Stop Hypertension (MED-DASH) versus default to the Typical American Diet (TAD) in three different income-level neighborhoods in Los Angeles, California.

The research claimed that geospatially explicit ABMs of three neighborhoods were developed in Lo...