Youth Access to School Salad Bars in the United States-2011 to 2014.

Purpose: To examine differences in students' access to school salad bars across sociodemographic groups and changes in availability over time.

Design: Nonexperimental.

Setting: Nationally representative 2011 and 2014 YouthStyles surveys.

Availability and Promotion of Healthful Foods in Stores and Restaurants - Guam, 2015.

Chronic disease, which is linked to unhealthy nutrition environments, is highly prevalent in Guam. The nutrition environment was assessed in 114 stores and 63 restaurants in Guam. Stores had limited availability of some healthier foods such as lean ground meat (7.

Physician Characteristics Associated With Sugar-Sweetened Beverage Counseling Practices.

Purpose: Frequent sugar-sweetened beverage (SSB) consumption is associated with chronic disease. Although physician counseling can positively affect patient behavior, physicians' personal characteristics may influence counseling practices. We explored SSB-related topics physicians discuss when counseling overweight/obese patients and examined associations between physicians' SSB-related counseling practices and their personal and medical practice characteristics.

Sodium in Store and Restaurant Food Environments - Guam, 2015.

Compared with the United States overall, Guam has higher mortality rates from cardiovascular disease and stroke (1). Excess sodium intake can increase blood pressure and risk for cardiovascular disease (2,3). To determine the availability and promotion of lower-sodium options in the nutrition environment, the Guam Department of Public Health and Social Services (DPHSS) conducted an assessment in September 2015 using previously validated tools adapted to include sodium measures.