OBJECTIVES To compare food expenditure patterns between low-income households and higher- income households in the Canadian population, and to examine the relationship between food expenditure patterns and the presence or absence of housing payments among low-income households. DESIGN Secondary data analysis of the 1996 Family Food Expenditure Survey conducted by Statistics Canada. SETTING ...

BACKGROUND Empirical evidence has shown that rising obesity rates closely parallel the increased consumption of processed foods (PF) consumption in USA. Differences in postprandial thermogenic responses to a whole-food (WF) meal vs. a PF meal may be a key factor in explaining obesity trends, but currently there is limited research exploring this potential link. OBJECTIVE The goal was to deter...

iran has experienced high food prices in recent years. this paper examines the welfare impacts of rising major food groups' prices on iranian urban households using quadratic almost ideal demand system (quaids) approach. the elasticity coefficients derived from quaids are used to estimate compensated variations (cv).the study uses iranian household expenditure and income survey (heis) raw data,...

This paper investigates the effects of trade in food on obesity in Mexico. We classify Mexican food imports from the U.S. into healthy and unhealthy and match these with anthropometric and food expenditure survey data. We exploit variation across Mexican states in their exposure to food imports from the U.S.. We find that imports of unhealthy foods significantly contribute to the rise of obesit...

The first publication on the consumption of households in Sweden was in 1961 by Statistics Sweden. Since then, Family Expenditure Surveys or Family Food Expenditure surveys have been carried out in 1969, 1978, 1985, 1988, 1989, 1992, 1995, and 1996. The most recent publication is the Household Budget Survey (HBS) expenditure and income report in 2003. However, data on quantities of food purchas...

BACKGROUND The Bolsa Família Program was created in Brazil in 2003, by the joint of different social programs aimed at poor or very poor families with focus on income transfer to promote immediate poverty relief, conditionalities and complementary programs. Given the contributions of conditional cash transfer programs to poverty alleviation and their potential effects on nutrition and health, t...

With food expenditure growing about 7.67% from 2010 through 2012, the demand for organic food through the retail sales medium is anticipated to increase consumer food expenditure. Produce enters the market primarily through supermarkets and grocery stores, after it originates from large farms in the U.S., Mexico and South America. However, there are numerous small farms that are certified organ...