School of Public Health Sciences, Faculty of Health, University of Waterloo, Waterloo, ON N2L 3G1, Canada.
Institute of Applied Physical Activity and Health Research, School of Exercise Science, Physical and Health Education, University of Victoria, Victoria, BC V8W 3P1, Canada.
Int J Environ Res Public Health. 2021 Aug 2;18(15):8174. doi: 10.3390/ijerph18158174.
Canadian, municipally funded recreation/sport facilities typically have unhealthy food environments. Ontario, unlike some provinces, lacks a voluntary recreation facility nutrition policy. This study assessed the healthfulness of food environments and vending sales in 16 Ontario recreation/sport facilities and, secondarily, compared data from facilities within municipalities that banned versus permitted plastic bottled-water sales (water-ban, = 8; water, = 8) to test the nutritional effects of environmental policy. Concession and vending packaged food/beverage offerings and vending sales were audited twice, eighteen months apart. The products were categorized using nutrition guidelines as , , and . Both water and water-ban facilities offered predominantly (>87%) packaged food items. However, proportions of and concession and vending beverages differed ( < 0.01). beverages averaged 74% and 88% of vending offerings in water and water-ban facilities, respectively, while beverages averaged 14% and 1%, respectively. Mirroring offerings, beverages averaged 79% and 90% of vending sales in water versus water-ban facilities. Ontario recreation/sport facilities provided unhealthy food environments; most food/beverage offerings were energy-dense and nutrient-poor. Water bans were associated with increased facility-based exposure to beverage options. A nutrition policy is recommended to make recreation facility food/beverage environments healthier and to mitigate unintended negative consequences of bottled-water bans.
加拿大的市政资助娱乐/体育设施通常存在不健康的食品环境。安大略省与一些省份不同，缺乏自愿的娱乐设施营养政策。本研究评估了 16 个安大略省娱乐/体育设施的食品环境和自动售货销售的健康程度，并对禁止和允许销售塑料瓶装水的市政设施内的数据进行了比较（水禁令，n=8；水，n=8），以测试环境政策的营养效果。特许经营和自动售货的包装食品/饮料供应品和自动售货销售情况每十八个月审核两次。使用营养指南将产品分类为、和。水和水禁令设施均提供主要（>87%）包装食品。然而，特许经营和自动售货饮料中 和 的比例不同（<0.01）。饮料分别占水和水禁令设施自动售货供应品的 74%和 88%，而 饮料分别占 14%和 1%。反映出的供应情况，饮料分别占水和水禁令设施自动售货销售的 79%和 90%。安大略省的娱乐/体育设施提供了不健康的食品环境；大多数食品/饮料供应品都是高热量、低营养的。水禁令与设施内更多的 饮料选择有关。建议制定营养政策，使娱乐设施的食品/饮料环境更加健康，并减轻瓶装水禁令的意外负面影响。
