Beyond Wishful Thinking: Integrating Consumer Preferences in the Assessment of Dietary Recommendations
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Beyond Wishful Thinking: Integrating Consumer Preferences in the Assessment of Dietary Recommendations
Convenience, taste, and prices are the main determinants of food choices. Complying with dietary recommendations therefore imposes a "taste cost" on consumers, potentially hindering adoption of those recommendations. The study presents and applies a new methodology, based on economic theory, to quantify this taste cost and assess the health and welfare effects of different dietary recommendatio...
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عنوان ژورنال: PLOS ONE
سال: 2016
ISSN: 1932-6203
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0158453