Food choices of Mexican high‐school students deviate from their perceptions of food healthiness

Socioeconomic inequalities in the healthiness of food choices: Exploring the contributions of food expenditures

Investigations of the contribution of food costs to socioeconomic inequalities in diet quality may have been limited by the use of estimated (vs. actual) food expenditures, not accounting for where individuals shop, and possible reverse mediation between food expenditures and healthiness of food choices. This study aimed to explore the extent to which food expenditure mediates socioeconomic ine...

The Impact of Food Stamp Program on Relative Food Consumption and Food Choices

  I n this paper, the effects of the Food Stamp (FS) Program (now referred to as Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program-SNAP) on individuals’ food choices are evaluated. In other words, I examine how households' food choice or relative food consumption is changed by FS participation. For this purpose six food groups are created using 2016 Consumer Expenditure Diary Surv...

Perceptions of food healthiness among free-living women.

BACKGROUND Improving our understanding of food-related healthiness perception may be beneficial to assist those with eating- and weight-related problems. PURPOSE This study replicates and extends prior work by examining normative and person-specific predictors of the perceived healthiness of foods in a sample of free-living women. METHODS One hundred sixty-nine women from the community judg...

Food choices during Ramadan

Few studies have assessed the dietary Practices of people with diabetes during Ramadan (1). A sub study of Ramadan prospective diabetes study (2) which was conducted at the outpatient department of Baqai Institute of Diabetology and endocrinology, Karachi Pakistan in 2009 analyzed the food choices of patients with diabetes during Ramadan. Several irregularities regarding dietary intake and food...

Running Head: PERCEPTIONS OF HEALTHINESS AMONG FREE-LIVING WOMEN Perceptions of Food Healthiness among Free-Living Women