Some food products fit better within a healthy diet than others, but how can consumers tell? The Choices programme is a simple and internationally-applicable programme to help consumers make a healthy choice on food and beverages and to stimulate industry towards healthy product innovation in all food groups. The essence of the programme is a front-of-pack stamp on products that pass an evaluat...

In this presentation I will attempt to illustrate the serious impact of the obesity epidemic throughout the Region of the Americas. Particular attention will be paid to the increasing rates of obesity in Latino populations in North America and South America, the underlying factors, and, most importantly, how we can prevent the epidemic from spreading further. Obesity is behind the three major k...

OBJECTIVE Food choices are often made mindlessly, when individuals are not able or willing to exert self-control. Under low self-control, individuals have difficulties to resist palatable but unhealthy food products. In contrast to previous research aiming to foster healthy choices by promoting high self-control, this study exploits situations of low self-control, by strategically using the ten...

Walking is a means of health promotion, which one the main features smart cities. A city’s built environment can help people choose healthy walking route instead shortest one. Our study investigated environmental factors pedestrians who select routes prefer and favored in pedestrian navigation mobile applications. Survey data were collected from 164 residents Daegu, South Korea, October 12 to 2...

OBJECTIVE Sometimes the suspicion is put forward that nutrition students show more disordered eating patterns, which may be among the motivating factors to study nutrition. At the same time, it is not clear whether the students' increasing knowledge about diet and nutrition is associated with a more healthy eating behaviour or with an unhealthy obsession with food choices. DESIGN Cross-sectio...

OBJECTIVE The 'Smart Choices' programme was an industry-driven, front-of-package (FOP) nutritional labelling system introduced in the USA in August 2009, ostensibly to help consumers select healthier options during food shopping. Its nutritional criteria were developed by members of the food industry in collaboration with nutrition and public health experts and government officials. The aim of ...

Children consume too much sugar and not enough fruit and vegetables, increasing their risk of adverse health outcomes. Inhibitory control training (ICT) reduces children's and adults' intake of energy-dense foods in both laboratory and real-life settings. However, no studies have yet examined whether ICT can increase healthy food choice when energy-dense options are also available. We investiga...