In September 2010, a group of carrot growers in the USA announced a US$25 million marketing campaign to promote ‘cut and peel’ carrots—also known as ‘baby carrots’—with the slogan: “Eat ‘em like junk food”. The campaign is an attempt to break into the US$18 billion snack-food industry by “[t]aking a page out of junk food’s playbook and applying it to baby carrots” (Horovitz, 2010). It is neithe...

background: low attention to dairy product consumptions and high intake of junk foods and bakery products might be related to high prevalence of chronic diseases because of their fat content and fatty acid composition.  objective: in this study we investigated the kind and amount of fatty acid content in iranian junk foods, dairy, and bakery products materials and methods: some common brands of...

Emotional well-being affects eating behaviour, whether making an individual eat less or more than they normally do. This paper aimed to compare behaviour between normal and overweight female undergraduate students in response positive negative emotions. cross-sectional study was conducted among 166 university students. Data collection involved the assessments of participants’ anthropometric mea...

Problem, research strategy, and findings Zoning has been proposed as a way of reducing unhealthy food access for youth, but little evaluated outcomes or existing junk bans, even less considered equity implications such zoning policies. In this simulation study, set in the Region Waterloo, Ontario (Canada), we examined how secondary student to fast restaurants convenience stores would change und...

Similar to drugs of abuse, the hedonic value of food is mediated, at least in part, by the mesostriatal dopamine (DA) system. Prolonged intake of either high calorie diets or drugs of abuse both lead to a blunting of the DA system. Most studies have focused on DAergic alterations in the striatum, but little is known about the effects of high calorie diets on ventral tegmental area (VTA) DA neur...

OBJECTIVE To validate an adaptation of a short questionnaire measuring behaviour related to selecting low fat diets. The questionnaire was adapted for telephone use in a low income, low education population. DESIGN The factorial structure of the 38 item adaptation was studied in a population based random sample of 1432 adults. Seven day test-retest reliability was measured in a convenience sa...