Learning for Healthy Food Habit: Avoiding Junk Foods

Junk food thoughts.

Economic Inequality in Healthy and Junk Foods Consumption and its determinants in Children and Adolescents: the CASPIAN- IV Study

Background: Nutritional habits and its determinants, especially in children and adolescents have recently turned into the one of the major concerns of health researches. We examine the diet contribution inequality in according to socio-demographic factors, age, gender, physical activity and body image to alleviate this gap in Iranian children and adolescents. Materials and Methods: Study sampl...

Health Canada contemplates providing food industry with "discretionary" authority to fortify junk foods.

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