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Showing 1 to 20 of 24 for “"Healthiness"”.
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A micro-analysis of the influence of retail promotions on the healthiness of breakfast cereal purchases.
… the role of retail promotions on improving the healthiness of purchases and the evidence whether promotions can encourage healthier eating patterns. In order to achieve the above-mentioned aim, the study employs a sample from Kantar Worldpanel scanner data using Scotland as a case study across …
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The healthiness of processed foods frequently consumed by children in early childhood development centres in the North West Province
… The aim of this research was to determine the healthiness of frequently consumed processed foods of children aged two to five years. Specific objectives included (i) determining which processed foods were frequently consumed by children in this age group and (ii) determining the healthiness of …
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Healthiness, through the material culture of the late iron age and roman large urban-type settlements of South-East Britain.
… this area of study. It does so by investigating healthiness in the late Iron Age and Romano-British periods. The literature review explores current thinking around this topic, and confirms that aspects of good health mattered to people in the past. The research explores small finds that are …
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A Study Of The Effectiveness Of Front-Of-Package Nutrition Labels In The US
… in the study. The main outcome measures were the healthiness assessment of two product variants for three comfood categories, along with label liking, familiarity, ease of comprehension, purchase intention, and perceived label credibility. Additionally, participants' nutrition attitude, …
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Advancing measures of the out-of-home food environment: a big data approach
… of data. This lack of data extends to both the healthiness of individual items sold (i.e., whether an item is "healthy"), and the overall healthiness of menus as a whole (i.e., whether an outlet is "healthy"). The aim of my thesis is to bridge this gap and advance the understanding of the …
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Healthy Eating Information and Food Choices
… attributes and an increased influence of food healthiness attributes in their food decisions. Fifty-six college students were recruited from the University of Missouri-Kansas City. Participants were randomly assigned to the healthy eating information group (n = 29) and the control group (n = …
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Survival of encapsulated probiotic bacteria during storage at low water activity at ambient temperature
… (2001) as microorganisms that improve the healthiness of the host when available in sufficient number in the human intestinal tract. Health benefits of probiotic bacteria are correlated with the number of viable bacteria reaching the host and the recommended bacterial population required is …
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Consumer Reaction to Food and Health. A longitudinal study of U. K. consumer behaviour and attitudes towards health, with particular reference to food purchasing and consumption habits, product quality, nutritional composition, ingredients and production methods.
… which people have opinions, be it food quality, healthiness, or the food supply itself. It is also central to consumer's self-image. There is a large sector of the economy which supplies food demand, and this sector is itself now under considerable scrutiny from the consumer. This thesis examines …
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USING SOCIAL MEDIA AS A DATA SOURCE IN PUBLIC HEALTH RESEARCH
… level measures of food sentiment and healthiness, are associated with census tract-level food desert status. Additionally, the results suggest that including food ingestion language derived from tweets in classification models that predict food desert status improves model performance …
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Food labeling systems and Consumers’ Decision making
… thinking, analytical processing, and judgment of healthiness. In conclusion, the body of literature reviewed and the experimental data gathered in this thesis suggest that food labels are effective at influencing consumer choice; however, due to this, special caution must be exercised due to the …
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Development and testing of an evidence-based tool to support adoption and implementation of the National Healthy Food and Drink Policy
… and Drink Policy was released to improve the healthiness of food and drinks for staff and visitors in New Zealand health sector organisations. However, there were no resources developed to support policy implementation. Aim: To develop evidence-based tool(s) to support implementation of the …
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Utility assessment based on individualized patient perspectives
… particular, perhaps unique, value system for healthiness is explored as a means to evaluate the quality of life. The hypothesis is that a systematic approach that treats the patient as a competent expert on a patient's perception of what it means to be healthy is a viable approach to his or …
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Consumer perceptions, preferences, and their purchase intentions for organically grown products in Shelly Beach shopping centre, Port Shepstone
… conscious, concerned about food safety and healthiness had a positive attitude towards the purchase of organically grown products. Results from the multiple regression model revealed that factors such as; ethnicity; household size; employment status; household income and perceptions that …
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Evaluating and informing reformulation strategies to achieve healthier Australian diets
… in Australia was ineffective in improving the healthiness of their private-label products. Together, these studies highlight that while regulatory strategies are needed to achieve healthier Australian diets, the current reformulation policies set by the Australian government are not enough to …
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The Moralisation of Eating
… when a food has a moral label congruent with its healthiness, people are more likely to select and consume it.
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Understanding consumer liking of beef with particular reference to flavour
… were less concerned about the origin of beef and healthiness of beef product. Higher consumption frequency of low-quality cuts was reported by consumers in Reading and thus they gave higher scores for palatability traits when they consumed striploin steak. Four cluster groups were observed using …
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Developing an evidence-based and UK-adapted Mediterranean style diet for healthy eating in overweight/obesity
… many of the dietary modifications increased the healthiness of the diet for specific purposes. Examples of this were visible in the PREDIMED studies, where supplementary extra virgin olive oil and/or nuts were widely deployed. Non-dietary factors were broadly absent in the eligible articles, with …
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An analysis of changing dietary trends and the implications for global health.
… increasing calories and deteriorating dietary healthiness over the past half a century, the most calorific cluster has shown signs of stabilising calorie consumption. A notable contribution of this research is the examination of spatial patterns of global food consumption using both traditional …
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Enhancing the health-status of processed meats through ingredient manipulation and its effects on sensory and physiochemical product attributes
… and explored their perceptions on the healthiness and purchase-ability for both traditional and functional processed meats. This study found that the consumer was distrustful towards processed meat, especially high salt and fat content. Consumers were found to be very pro-bioactive …
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Consumer perceptions and intentions towards sustainable meat consumption and lab-grown meat in Australia
… positive perceptions of eating enjoyment and the healthiness of lab-grown meat; familiarity with lab-grown meat; higher consumption frequency of conventionally raised chicken meat; tertiary education; and younger age. Chapter 4 utilised the data set from Chapter 3 to provide further insight on the …
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