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Showing 1 to 20 of 71 for “"Food Choice"”.
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Flavor Perception, Food Choice, and Health in Early Childhood
… complex, multisensory process. Our experience of food, commonly referred to as “taste” or “flavor” derives from the active combination of many sensory modalities, the most obvious of which are gustation (i.e., the qualities of sweet, salty, sour, and bitter) and olfaction (e.g., “fruity”, “smoky”, …
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Adolescent Food Choice: Developing and Evaluating a Model of Parental Influence
… to explore parental impact on adolescent food decision-making. Three specific types of parenting practices (expectation, monitoring, and inducement/enforcement behaviors), parenting style, and family communication style were investigated. A multi-method approach was taken to develop and …
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Influences on the Food Choice Behavior of Adults with Severe Mental Illness
… was to explore the factors that influence the food choice behaviors of community-dwelling adults diagnosed with a severe mental illness (SMI) and to examine their diet quality and patterns of dietary intake.</p> <p>Methods: This exploratory mixed-methods study involved the use of qualitative …
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Modeling Relationships Among Affective Measures of Food Choice: Acceptance, Emotions And Satisfaction
… in explaining the relationship between food-evoked emotions and sensory preferences, and examined factors influencing the sensory-emotion profile of food products. In the first phase of this research, a series of consumer studies were conducted using eggs as a test product. First, the …
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The Impact of a Smarter Lunchrooms Makeover on Children's Food Choice and Consumption
… an effort to increase consumption of healthier foods, such as fruits and vegetables, by making them more attractive and convenient.</p> <p>Our study implemented Smarter Lunchrooms interventions at two primarily Hispanic elementary schools in Paso Robles, CA. The interventions focused on …
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The Role of olfactory cues and their effects on food choice and acceptability
Food intake in humans is guided by a variety of factors, which include physiological, cultural, economic and environmental influences. The sensory attributes of food itself play a prominent role in dietary behaviour, and the roles of visual, auditory, gustatory and tactile stimuli have been …
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Culture and Diet: Food Choice among Black African and African-Caribbean Women with Type 2 Diabetes
… is an exploratory and in-depth inquiry into food choice and the implications of dietary change for women of Black African heritage who self-manage T2DM by diet alone. Eight participants were recruited using purposive sampling. Recruitment sites included Black and Minority Ethnic charities in …
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Pregnancy outcome in South Asian women: Factors affecting diet and nutrition
… Social and cultural norms and constraints affect food choice (3) and therefore the factors affecting food choice for pregnant South Asian women also need to be investigated. The objectives of this study were to evaluate the relationship between nutritional intakes from the diet and supplements …
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Fruit and vegetables : factors affecting their consumption
The purpose of this thesis was to study food choice motivations in relation to fruit and vegetable consumption. To this end, four studies were undertaken. The first was a systematic review of the literature investigating factors affecting the food choice decisions of adults in relation to fruit and …
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Lateral Parabrachial Choline Acetyltransferase Neurons and the Decision to Eat
Food choice is a modifiable health factor which involves neural, hormonal, and metabolic signals. The lateral parabrachial nucleus is a brain structure in the pons that integrates multiple aspects of food choice. It receives information from the homeostatic melanocortin hypothalamic system and …
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The Effect of Health Information on the Acceptability of a Functional Beverage with Fresh Turmeric
… to increase the acceptability of functional foods that impart unfamiliar flavors. PURPOSE: The purpose of this study was to evaluate the acceptability and sensory qualities of a functional beverage with fresh turmeric, and the impact of information related to the beverage's health benefits on …
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Development of the DESK (Disinhibited Eating Score for Koreans) Questionnaire: Examining the relationship between eating cues and food intake in the corporate-working population of Seoul, Korea
… countries, resulting in a highly intensified food environment with many potential implications on eating behavior. Also, both the corporate and social culture revolving highly around eating and drinking may create numerous opportunities that impact food choice and consumption in the …
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Beliefs about the Healthfulness of Common Foods
… beliefs about the healthfulness of common foods. There is widespread agreement that a whole foods, plants-based diet, such as that depicted by Canada’s Food Guide, promotes optimal health. However, many processed foods are marketed with nutrition messages that are purportedly designed to …
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Contextual and socio-economic factors that impact food purchasing patterns of health club members residing in a predominantly black- urban township in South Africa
… socioeconomic and environmental predictors of food purchasing and thus healthy eating, is imperative in order to develop appropriate nutrition and health interventions. Understanding the complex world of food choice requires a meticulous examination of stimuli and deterrents of food choice all …
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As the Crow Flies: An Underrepresentation of Food Deserts in the Rural Appalachian Mountains
… are major public health concerns. While personal choice and dietary behaviors are major influences on how an individual eats, the environment influences these choices and behaviors. The nutrition environment is one key influence and its relationship with food choice, behaviors, and socioeconomic …
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Predicting Body Mass Index in Northern Plains American Indian Children
… variables (i.e., gender and SES), (b) food selection and physical activity measures (i.e., food choice intention, knowledge of fatty foods, food self-efficacy, physical activity, and sedentary behavior), (c) attitudes about body size (i.e., body dissatisfaction, attitudes toward body …
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