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Showing 1 to 17 of 17 for “"healthfulness"”.
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Beliefs about the Healthfulness of Common Foods
… this research was to evaluate 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 …
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The Healthfulness of Entrées and Students’ Purchases in the Campus Dining Environment
<p>The purpose of this study is to determine the availability of “more” versus “less healthful” entrée items in the campus dining environment and also to determine if students’ purchases are reflective of what is offered. <br />Entrée items were categorized as either “more” or “less healthful” …
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Impacts of the Seattle sweetened beverage tax on perceived healthfulness of sweetened beverages
… to compare differences in the perceived healthfulness of sweetened beverage consumption and drink types over time and across income groups. We found significant increases in the proportion of Seattle respondents with lower incomes who agreed that sweetened beverage consumption raises …
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Marketing and Consumer Perceptions of Sugar-Containing Beverages Positioned as Healthy or as Having Health-Related Benefits
… influences consumers’ perceptions of the healthfulness of these beverages. In study one, I conducted a cross-sectional audit of sugar-containing beverages sold in 17 Australian supermarkets during 2016. I analysed the content of 945 sugar-containing beverage labels to assess the extent and …
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YOU ARE WHAT YOU EAT: HOW FOOD TEXTURE AND PACKAGING INFLUENCE CONSUMER WELL-BEING
… to demonstrate packaging gloss biases consumers’ healthfulness perceptions and, as a result, food preference, choice, and consumption. Nine experiments, including a field experiment, show that people have learned to associate glossy surfaces on snack food packages with unhealthy products, whereas …
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Comparing healthy eating index scores to physical activity levels in adults using 20007–08 and 2009–10 NHANES data sets
… suggests diet intake among adults lacks in healthfulness, which contributes to poor quality of life and increased disease outcomes. This study assesses the relationship between diet quality, using the Healthy Eating Index (HEI), and presence of physical activity (PA). Participants included …
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Characterization of a Value-Added Salmon Product: Infant/toddler Food
… to their young children since they recognize the healthfulness of fish consumption and welcome opportunities to include such foods in their children's diet.
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How young people's decisions about food are influenced by their use of social media in New Zealand
… of SM and if the users are considering the healthfulness of the food as they get influenced by SM and decide to consume the food. These inclusions were done for a wholesome understanding of the research topic. Methods: A sequential, exploratory, mixed methods research design was employed. A …
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Co-Creating Solutions: Affordable Healthy Eating for Individuals Living with Cognitive Disabilities
… the recipes to evaluate their affordability and healthfulness. An easy-to-read language and an accessible format protocol was also developed to adapt recipes. The adapted recipes were tested by eight participants to evaluate their usability, usefulness and acceptability. Results: Manuscript one …
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Associations between health literacy and attention to food packaging, front of pack labels, and claims
… labels and claims influence knowledge of the healthfulness and nutrient content of packaged foods, and may ultimately impact purchasing decisions. Objective: The purpose of this study was to investigate how adults with varying levels of health literacy view food packaging components. Sample: …
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The Competitive Front-of-Package Labeling of Consumer Packaged Goods: Cutting Through The Clutter
… fluency of health information, perceived product healthfulness, and purchase intentions. Studies 3 and 4 provide a stronger market-based examination of how consumers process FOP health information across multiple brands and product categories in a retail setting. These controlled retail laboratory …
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Towards a postneoliberal health promotion: A journey of reifying, resisting, and reimagining health promotion in and through sport
… be a setting that fosters connection, and thus healthfulness, in and for the postneoliberal era that is now before us.
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Message effectiveness in the local food context
… These motivating factors were food quality, healthfulness, and support of local farmers. We sought to identify if message frames around these motivations created positive attitudes and behavioral intent to purchase local foods. To test this relationship 408 study participants were recruited …
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Time use, daily activities, and health-related quality of life of school-going late adolescents in Cork city and county: A cross-sectional study
… of life people experience including their healthfulness” (p. 3). Specifically, I consider Yerxa’s question in relation to the quotidian activities and health-related quality of life (HRQoL) of late adolescents (aged 15 - 19 years) in Ireland. This research enquiry was informed by an …
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Cultural models of food in cuban miami: Roots, Yucas, and Moros
… does exist and appears along the dimension of healthfulness of food. Experience in diverse foodways appears to influence food knowledge.
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Socio-ecological factors influencing food choices and behaviours of Maltese primary schoolchildren
… to intake. Taste, texture, convenience and healthfulness were key attributes which attracted children to food. Local health promotion initiatives and nutrition education interventions need to target the different influences on Maltese children’s food intake functioning at the different …