Geek Cuisine: Extending the Narrative of a Junk Food Gamer

Junk Food Consumption among High School Students in Iran: The Role of Food Advertising

Introduction: Adolescence is one of the most important periods of human development. Nutrition plays an important role in health and prevention of disease during this period. Food advertising influences food purchase and food consumption among children and adolescents. Most of these advertisements are about the foods high in fat, salt and sugar. High exposure to these kinds of a...

Junk food thoughts.

Identifying the Cuisine of a Plate of Food

Ingredients are the core components that make a dish what it is, besides the preparation process. Using the idea of attribute-based classification, we seek to classify plates of food to the correct cuisine by the country, using the ingredients as attributes for a plate of food. Because of the important role that ingredients have in any plate of food, this method can be generalized to any type o...

The Effects of Banning Junk Food Advertising

We develop a structural model to analyze the effect of banning advertising on market equilibria and welfare in junk food markets. We consider the impact on demand and prices, and we show how to quantify welfare effects when advertising might lead consumers to take decisions that are inconsistent with their underlying preferences. We use transaction level data on the potato chips market and find...

The effects of junk-food on teenagers