The empirical results from this study suggest
that food price and availability measures play
a limited role in the weight outcomes of U.S.
adult men and women, in general, although
there are some significant effects for certain
subpopulations. Fast-food prices are not found
to be associated with male or female adult
weight in any of the models. This finding is different
from that of Chou,Grossman,and Saffer
(2004),who find adult obesity prevalence to be
sensitive to fast-food prices in a large sample of adults from a different data set; although they
do not separately control availability of fastfood
restaurants versus full-service restaurants,
their contextual factors are matched at the
broader state level, and they control for foodat-
home prices rather than fruit and vegetable
prices.