Ana Diez Roux and colleagues analyzed five years of data from more than 4,000 adults, ages 45 to 84, in six US cities to identify connections between obesity and neighborhood food environment and walkability. They found that a healthy food environment was linked to obesity even after accounting for age, sex, income, education, ethnicity, diet, physical activity, and the walkability of the neighborhood. Their study results appear in the journal [*Obesity*](http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/oby.20255/abstract;jsessionid=F4E25EBF1A4645181384B2D45A588374.d01t04).

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