In Western society, the fresh-cut fruit market is experiencing significant growth, especially in Italy, where, 2019, sales volume increased by 35% compared with previous year. This study aims to understand Italian consumers’ demand for fruits and explore whether this trend also affected prevalence of healthy lifestyles. Health orientation seems, fact, be a growing food sector. Research has reco...

Treating people as cases that are proximate in a behavior space-representing lifestyles-rather than as markers of single variables has a long history in sociology. Yet, because it is difficult to find analytically tractable ways to implement this idea, this approach is rarely used. We take seriously the idea that people are whole packages, and we use household spending to identify groups who oc...

objective: iran society also has been changing in different social, cultural, economical etc dimensions. rural society of iran, because of the achievement to new technological products, and communicative facilities is shifting from traditional period to a modern one. this study deals with this transmission on the generation viewpoint, in rural society of iran. method: in this paper, the changes...

BACKGROUND Research on the co-occurrence of unhealthy lifestyles has tended to focus mainly upon the demographic and socioeconomic characteristics of individuals. This study investigated the relevance of neighborhood socioeconomic circumstance for multiple unhealthy lifestyles. METHOD An unhealthy lifestyle index was constructed for 206,457 participants in the 45 and Up Study (2006-2009) by s...

The traditional literature on food demand has been based on the premise that consumers gain direct benefits from consumption of goods purchased at the market and has estimated the effect of prices, income and quality indicators on food purchases. However, for the most part, traditional demand studies that use prices and income as explanatory variables explain less than 50 percent of the variati...