BACKGROUND Health inequalities may begin during childhood. The aim of this study was to investigate the main effect of poverty and its interactive effect with gender on children's blood pressure. METHODS The study was performed in two elementary schools from a rural region near Podgorica, the capital of Montenegro. A questionnaire including questions on family monthly income, children's physi...

OBJECTIVES Using Italian data, we evaluate the effects on the consumption of unhealthy snacks of a European Union-wide campaign providing fruit and vegetables to school children and promoting healthy diet habits. METHODS We use scanner data of supermarket sales in the city of Rome. Using a difference-in-difference approach, we compare the sales of these snacks before and after the campaign in...

Young people choose energy-dense, nutrient-poor diets, yet understanding of potential determinants is limited. Associations between food choices, mental wellbeing, health-related quality life (HRQoL) and family affluence were explored to identify targets for intervention promote dietary health wellbeing in young people. Adolescents recruited via post-primary schools the UK surveyed at two time-...

This study aimed to examine school principals' perceptions of the school environment in Hong Kong as a context for the dissemination of food knowledge and inculcation of healthy eating habits. A questionnaire survey was administered in secondary schools in Hong Kong to survey Principals' views of students' food choices, operation of the school tuck shop, and promotion of healthy eating at schoo...

We develop a structural model to analyze the effects of banning advertising on demand, supply and market equilibria in junk food markets. We use transaction level data on the potato chips market and find that banning advertising does not lead to a reduction in demand because, while banning advertising reduces consumers’ taste for junk food, it also toughens price competition, leading to lower p...

BACKGROUND Increasingly nutritional experts express the necessity of research on dietary patterns to identify numerous modifiable risk factors of disease. This study was conducted to identify major dietary patterns among adolescent girls in Talaat intelligent guidance school, Tabriz, Iran. METHODS Among 257 adolescent girls aged 11-15 years, usual dietary intakes were assessed using a 162-ite...