Fast food has increasingly become popular in Bangladesh with the effect of globalization. Many people, specifically the younger generation are consuming various types of fast foods everyday as these are convenient, time saving and tasty. Consumers’ choice of a particular restaurant depends on many factors, i.e. quality, variation, location, price, environment, and many more aspects. Thus the co...

By means of a literature review this paper aims at shedding more light on the potentialities of unhealthy food/drink taxation in changing eating patterns and life styles and hence combating the obesity epidemic. One remarkable point that emerges when assessing the set of selected papers is the existence of a wide diversity of objectives, methodologies, settings and datasets, policies implemente...

Increased consumption of sugar-sweetened beverages (SSBs) is a critical nutrition problem in the U.S. and has been identified as a key contributor to the current epidemic of obesity among adolescents. Up to date, little is known on how this high level of SSBs consumption can be reduced. Recently, environmental and policy interventions have been advocated as powerful strategies to address the ep...

OBJECTIVE To assess consumption of street food (sold by vendors) and fast food (from fast food outlets) by different ethnic groups in South Africa. DESIGN A national cross-sectional survey representative of adults (> or = 16 years, N=3827) from different ethnic groups, provinces, geographic localities, and socio-economic strata was undertaken. METHODS Trained interviewers visited participan...

The growing obesity epidemic in the United States has served as the catalyst for promoting studies examining linkages between modifiable features of neighborhood food environments and the risk of being overweight and/or obese. Past studies have used several data sources to measure various dimensions of local food environments (e.g., number of fast food restaurants, number of grocery stores), in...

Potato prices are not sustained by policies, and have a tendency to alter in response to production. They are seasonal crop, small changes in demand and supply lead to rather great price variations. The consumption global trend is considered by growing demand of Asia and South America especially from Middle East, Brazil and East Asia (Figure 1). However for processing the demand is mainly from ...

In this fast-moving era, food plays a vital role in the human mankind lives. It was listed the top 5 needs in the Maslow hierarchy chart. As we moves into the 21 st century, when the economy is fast blooming; humans are acting faster to keep up to the never-ending trend where time plays an important role. Hence, fast food chain has been keeping up to the demand of consumers, which led it to the...

Purpose – The purpose of this article is to examine how often urban children in mainland China interact with different types of retail shops, how they learn about new products and services, and their attitudes toward different sources of product information. Design/methodology/approach – A survey of 965 urban children ages six to 13 in four Chinese cities, including Beijing, Guangzhou, Nanjing ...