We take up on the idea of a nutrition facts label for online documents: the Information Nutrition Label. Such a label has the potential to increase the readers’ ability to make an informed decision before the “consumption” of a news article or some other published online document. The basic ideas along with the dimensions (manifest, measurable text qualities, etc.) of such a label were proposed...

BACKGROUND The prevalence of chronic disease in Australia is rising, and poor nutrition behaviour is a modifiable risk factor for many chronic diseases. The utilization of appropriate nutrition information has been recommended to promote optimal nutrition behaviour. OBJECTIVE To investigate individuals' utilization and preference of nutrition information sources as well as perceptions of trus...

Background & objectives: Nutrition literacy is defined as the degree to which individuals have the capacity to obtain process, understand and use nutritional information to make an appropriate decision about nutritional behaviors. This study aimed to determine the nutrition literacy status of 4000 adults, aged 15 years and older, in Kohgiloye and BoyerAhmad province in 2017. Methods: In this c...

BACKGROUND Front of pack (FOP) nutrition labels are concise labels located on the front of food packages that provide truncated nutrition information. These labels are rapidly gaining prominence worldwide, presumably because they attract attention and their simplified formats enable rapid comparisons of nutritional value. METHODS Eye tracking was conducted as US consumers interacted with actu...

We studied the nutrition information seeking behavior of primary care physicians (PCPs) and also PCPs' implementation of different strategies of nutrition guidance of patients. This was done by means of a questionnaire mailed to a nationwide random sample of 1000 PCPs in the Netherlands. The net response rate was 64%. The two most important nutrition information sources for PCPs were a dietitia...

We studied the nutrition information seeking behavior of primary care physicians (PCPs) ancl also PCPs' im­ plementation of different strategies of nutrition guidance of pa­ tients. This was done by means of a questionnaire mailed to a nationwide random sample of 1000 PCPs in the Netherlands. The net response rate was 64%, The two most important nutrition information sources for PCPs were a die...

Nutrition information on food labels is an important source of nutrition information but is typically underutilized by consumers. This review examined whether consumer nutrition knowledge is important for communication of nutrition information through labels on packaged foods. A cognitive processing model posits that consumers with prior knowledge are more likely to use label information effect...