Healthy convenience: nudging students toward healthier choices in the lunchroom
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Healthy convenience: nudging students toward healthier choices in the lunchroom.
BACKGROUND In the context of food, convenience is generally associated with less healthy foods. Given the reality of present-biased preferences, if convenience was associated with healthier foods and less healthy foods were less convenient, people would likely consume healthier foods. This study examines the application of this principle in a school lunchroom where healthier foods were made mor...
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عنوان ژورنال: Journal of Public Health
سال: 2012
ISSN: 1741-3850,1741-3842
DOI: 10.1093/pubmed/fds003