Using food prices and consumption to examine Chinese cost of living

A Lifestyle Segmentation Study of US Food Shoppers to Examine Organic and Local Food Consumption

Lifestyle segmentation of US food shoppers to examine organic and local food consumption.

The food related lifestyle (FRL) model, widely used on European data, is applied to US data using a modified survey instrument to examine organic and local food consumption. Since empirical studies indicate these shoppers are motivated by environmental and health concerns and limited by access, the conceptual framework employs an environmental behavior model, Attitude Behavior Context (ABC), wh...

Fast Food Consumption and Food Prices: Evidence from Panel Data on 5th and 8th Grade Children

Fast food consumption is a dietary factor associated with higher prevalence of childhood obesity in the United States. The association between food prices and consumption of fast food among 5th and 8th graders was examined using individual-level random effects models utilizing consumption data from the Early Childhood Longitudinal Study, Kindergarten Class of 1998-99 (ECLS-K), price data from A...

synthesis of amido alkylnaphthols using nano-magnetic particles and surfactants

we used dbsa and nano-magnetic for the synthesis of amido alkylnaphtols.

Access to fast food and food prices: relationship with fruit and vegetable consumption and overweight among adolescents.

We examine the extent to which food prices and restaurant outlet density are associated with adolescent fruit and vegetable consumption, body mass index (BMI), and the probability of overweight. We use repeated cross-sections of individual-level data on adolescents from the Monitoring the Future Surveys from 1997 to 2003 combined with fast food and fruit and vegetable prices obtained from the A...