Environmental and societal factors affect food choice and physical activity: rationale, influences, and leverage points.

By S. Booth, James F. Sallis, C. Ritenbaugh, James O Hill, L. Birch, L. Frank, K. Glanz, D. Himmelgreen, M. Mudd, Barry M. Popkin and 3 more. Nutrition reviews, 2009

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Temporal self-regulation theory: A model for individual health behavior (2007, background): “removal of barriers can result in increased participation in physical activity (Booth et al., 2001; Frank, Anderson, & Schmid, 2004; Saelens, Sallis, & Frank, 2003; Sallis, Bauman, & Pratt, 1998).”
Physical activity and food environments: solutions to the obesity epidemic. (2009, background): “Several conceptual models of food and nutrition environments have been proposed (Booth et al. 2001; Story et al. 2008).”
Neighborhood-based differences in physical activity: an environment scale evaluation. (2003, methodology): “We evaluated self-report measures of neighborhood environment variables hypothesized to be important contributors to physical activity.(7,12,13) On the basis of transportation research and to a model of environmental influences on physical activity,(9,14) self-report measures of neighborhood environ”
An ecological approach to creating active living communities. (2006, background): “Numerous authors have identified environmental and policy interventions as the most promising strategy for creating population-wide improvements in eating, physical activity, and weight status (8, 20, 26, 29, 37, 54).”