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... Unhealthy food marketing, a ubiquitous food stimulus, may impact response inhibition, making it more difficult to maintain healthy eating behaviors. Individuals with disordered eating may be particularly susceptible to altered inhibition responses to food stimuli, making them more vulnerable to unhealthy food marketing, which could perpetuate their disordered eating behaviors. The present study ex ...
... Exclusive reductionism in nutritional science consists of viewing foods as only the sum of nutrients. This position paper argues that the extreme application of this paradigm since 1950 has greatly contributed to confusion about a healthy diet among consumers and to the development of chronic diseases worldwide. First, history of nutritional sciences in Western countries shows that by approximatel ...
... It is well documented that approach tendencies for appetitive substances play a role in certain unhealthy patterns of consumption. However, it remains uncertain whether overweight individuals differ from healthy-weight individuals in terms of their tendency to approach unhealthy foods. Thus, the present study aimed to empirically test the hypothesis that overweight individuals are characterised by ...
... Due to the increased knowledge of nutrients and functional ingredients for their positive effects on health, people are tending to choose healthy food products including the snacks rich in these nutrients and ingredients. Healthy meal replacement products, which are calorie-controlled, nutritionally-balanced or/and functionally-fortified “meals,” are another food product that meets people’s health ...
... Sonic brand logos, also termed “sogos”, are a marketing communication tool that brands use to signify brand or product benefits to consumers in catchy, non-visual ways. Given the considerable utility of brand lsogos, it is surprising that there has been scant research into the nature of the specific acoustic features that can be modulated to connote certain traits, such as the healthfulness of pro ...
healthydiet, etc ; appetite; food choices; supermarkets; Show all 4 Subjects
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... Front-of-package (FOP) nutrition labels are placed on products to help consumers make healthy food choices. A lab-in-field experiment was conducted to test the effectiveness of two FOP labels in promoting healthy food choices among Dutch consumers, and to examine whether dieters and health conscious shoppers are more likely to use the FOP labels. In addition, it was examined whether the placement ...
... Ready meals are typically a high sodium product and excessive sodium increases the risk for chronic disease. The study aimed to explore the association between sodium content, Health Star Rating (HSR) and the Healthy Food Partnership (HFP) sodium reduction target for ready meals. Median (IQR) sodium content in mg/100 g and mg/serving were determined overall and for each subcategory (ambient, chill ...
healthydiet, etc ; Bayesian theory; appetite; taste; vegetables; Show all 5 Subjects
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... Previous studies have shown that the use of labels such as “organic” or “local” may improve the perceived healthiness, attractiveness and taste evaluation of healthy food products and increase their likelihood of being purchased. The aim of this work was to examine whether labeling vegetable items could promote consumption of at least one vegetable dish among students in a university canteen. We a ...
healthydiet, etc ; appetite; nutrition labeling; portion size; Show all 4 Subjects
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... We propose and find that the extremeness aversion bias when choosing portion-sizes is stronger for healthy food as compared to unhealthy food items. In two studies (and a follow-up) we find that adding an extra-large option to a standard menu of small, medium, and large portions increases the choice share of the larger portion-sizes; but more so for healthy food than for unhealthy food. Furthermor ...
healthydiet, etc ; infrastructure; malnutrition; prioritization; society; Senegal; Show all 6 Subjects
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... To evaluate the extent of implementation of public policies aimed at creating healthy eating environments in Senegal compared to international best practice and identity priority actions to address the double burden of malnutrition. The Healthy Food Environment Policy Index (Food-EPI) was used by a local expert panel to assess the level of implementation of forty-three good practice policy and inf ...
healthydiet, etc ; childhood obesity; models; persuasion; television; Show all 5 Subjects
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... Childhood obesity is a serious public health issue. While advertising on children’s television has been established as a contributing factor to poor dietary habits, less is known regarding the influence of food promotions in social media. Thus, this 2-part exploratory study examined the content and effects of food promotions in YouTube. Our data revealed that fruits and vegetables are more likely ...
healthydiet, etc ; appetite; health status; qualitative analysis; taste; Show all 5 Subjects
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... The positive effects of a healthy diet on older adults’ health status are well established. Yet, inadequate health outcomes prevail. Insufficient healthy dietary styles may be related to the complexity of lay concepts regarding what constitutes a healthy diet. It is hence of importance to disentangle and understand such concepts in depth. The aim of this qualitative study was to explore diet-relat ...
healthydiet, etc ; food choices; food groups; nutrition knowledge; Show all 4 Subjects
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... While food-based dietary guidelines have been widely disseminated for decades to improve nutritional knowledge in the population about healthy diets, more recent interventions such as front-of-pack labelling have made the differences between the two approaches apparent. While food-based dietary guidelines provide the overarching framework and benchmarks for a healthy diet, based on the current kno ...
healthydiet, etc ; food availability; food retailing; obesity; socioeconomics; Show all 5 Subjects
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... ‘Food deserts’ and ‘food swamps’ are food retail environment typologies associated with unhealthy diet and obesity. The current study aimed to identify more complex food retail environment typologies and examine temporal trends. Measures of food retail environment accessibility and relative healthy food availability were defined for small areas (SA2s) of Melbourne, Australia, from a census of food ...
healthydiet, etc ; ecological studies; income; population size; Brazil; Show all 5 Subjects
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... To evaluate changes in the retail food environment profile in a Brazilian metropolis over a 10-year period. An ecological study was conducted in the city of Belo Horizonte, Minas Gerais, Brazil. The addresses of formal food establishments were geocoded and classified according to their sold-food profile. Density changes were analysed according to neighbourhood, population size, income level and ge ...
healthydiet, etc ; elementary schools; qualitative analysis; school meals; Show all 4 Subjects
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... School meals can have a key function in promoting children’s health. However, simply providing a free school meal is not a guarantee that pupils will eat the food. The purpose of this study was to explore factors influencing pupils’ participation in free school meal schemes in Oslo. The study has a qualitative research design, inspired by grounded theory. Data were collected through interviews wit ...
healthydiet, etc ; energy; human health; quality of life; stakeholders; Show all 5 Subjects
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... Diet is an important contributor to human health and public health bodies are issuing guidelines aimed at favouring healthy food choices. The aim of our paper is to discuss the aspects underlying the concept of nutrient profiles, that is, defining levels of energy, some macronutrients, or salt which should not be exceeded in individual foods, according to the available evidence, to help in underst ...
healthydiet, etc ; food quality; obesity; systematic review; United Kingdom; Show all 5 Subjects
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... BACKGROUND: Existing research suggests that physical access to food can affect diet quality and thus obesity rates. When defining retail food environment (RFE) quantitatively, there is a little agreement on how to measure “lack of healthy food” and what parameters to use, resulting in a heterogeneity of study designs and outcome measures. In turn, this leads to a conflicting evidence base being on ...
healthydiet, etc ; bioavailability; biotechnology; fermentation; food science; large intestine; polyphenols; Show all 7 Subjects
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... High daily intake of polyphenol-rich meal in some countries could be regarded as a healthy meal. However, the knowledge about the bioavailability and functionality of the exiting amounts of polyphenol into the large intestine needs to be elucidated, particularly the beneficial health effects and its fermentation characteristics during fermentation. Thus, this review focuses on the influence of pol ...
healthydiet, etc ; cluster analysis; glycemic index; industry; markets; questionnaires; rice; Show all 7 Subjects
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... Rice and cereal consumption has become a concern for consumers due to usually high glycaemic indexes (GI), which is a critical issue for a balanced and healthy diet. Therefore, the development of new products with low GI is an important target of the industry, particularly in countries with high consumption. This study assesses consumers’ perceptions about “rice” and “rice with low GI” and evaluat ...