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Brands, product development and the behaviour of modern consumers.
Healthy Food Corners as Spatial Nudges: Consumer Awareness, Perceived Necessity, and Design Preferences in Convenience Stores
Background/objectives Healthy Food Corners (HFCs) are zones in Korean convenience stores meant to promote healthier choices, yet how consumers respond to them remains unclear. Drawing on the Stimulus-Organism-Response (S-O-R) framework, this study examined consumer awareness and the perceived necessity of HFCs, identified preferences for their spatial and visual design, and exploratorily tested whether perceived…
"You Gotta Eat It to Survive": A Mixed-Methods Study of the Perceived Food Environment and Food Choice Among Youth Experiencing Homelessness
Background/Objectives : This study aimed to examine how the perceived food environment influences food choice among youth experiencing homelessness. Methods : A convergent parallel mixed-methods design was used with 14 youth experiencing homelessness (aged 18-23 years; 64% Black/African American; 57% male) in Columbus, Ohio, United States.
Eating Disorder Risk, Healthy Orthorexia, and Orthorexia Nervosa Among Women Following Vegan, Vegetarian, and Omnivorous Dietary Patterns in Türkiye: A Cross-Sectional Study
Background/Objectives: Food exclusions in vegan and vegetarian diets may complicate the assessment of disordered eating and orthorexia. This study compared eating disorder risk, healthy orthorexia, and orthorexia nervosa across vegan, vegetarian, and omnivorous women and examined their adjusted associations with dietary pattern.
Energy Drink Use and Adolescent Sleep Debt: Implications for Obesity, Cognition, and Physical Activity
Background/objectives Energy drinks are marketed to adolescents as products that enhance alertness, concentration, and physical or sports performance, yet their use may also represent a visible marker of sleep debt and a potential contributor to disrupted 24 h behavioral patterns. This narrative review examines evidence linking energy drink consumption with adolescent sleep disturbance and considers implications for…
Psychological and Behavioural Correlates of Dietary Intake in Adolescent Elite Female Handball Players
Background/Objectives: Adequate dietary intake is essential for supporting growth, health, and athletic performance in adolescent athletes. Handball is a high-intensity intermittent team sport characterised by repeated running, sprinting, jumping, and physical contact, placing substantial physiological and nutritional demands on young athletes.
Nutrition knowledge and dietary intake in male English Premier League academy players and their key stakeholders
Background Adequate nutrition knowledge (NK) and dietary intake are important to the development in Youth Development Phase (YDP) academy footballers, helping to fuel sporting performance and promote long-term health. However, these areas remain under-researched within English Premier League (EPL) academy settings.
Food choices and beliefs in adults with inflammatory bowel disease in Sweden
Objectives Diet is a recognised risk factor for inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) and a management strategy. Concerns persist regarding the adverse effects of restrictive diets, including nutritional deficiencies and selective eating.
Voices from the foodbank: experiencing food insecurity in North-West England during the cost-of-living crisis
Background The current cost of living crisis in the UK has exacerbated food insecurity and the associated impacts on people's health and well-being. There is limited understanding of the extent and depth of the health impacts on those facing food insecurity.
Personalization and Fortification of In-Space Manufactured Emulsified Beverages for Long-Term Space Travel
The current trend of individualized food items (nutrient content and flavor) can be particularly valuable to support people's health and well-being in isolated environments where access to fresh foods and diverse nutrition is difficult. At the same time, bioactive compounds and micronutrients can be employed to countermeasure any health hazards characteristic for the respective environment.
The political economy of novel food taxes and subsidies in India: insights from stakeholder interviews and a scoping review
Fiscal policy tools are cost-effective for curbing unhealthy consumption, but unlike the extensively studied cases of tobacco and alcohol, the political economy of nutrition-based taxes and subsidies remains poorly understood in low- and middle-income countries. We examined the political economy of factors influencing the adoption and implementation of nutrition-based fiscal policies in India using a multi-method…
Psychometric validation of the Romanian Scenario-Based Dieting Self-Efficacy Scale in adults with overweight and obesity
Introduction Overweight and obesity require sustained changes in eating behaviour, yet long-term adherence to dietary recommendations remains difficult. Dieting self-efficacy, defined as confidence in managing eating-related challenges, is an important self-regulatory construct in weight management.
Momentary associations between perceived stress, dietary restriction, and eating behaviors in adolescents
Objective Adolescence is a critical period where growing autonomy over food choices shapes long-term health behaviors. While stress and dietary restriction are linked to eating behavior, prior research has examined trait-level stress, leaving momentary processes less understood.
Tastes of sustainability: a regional journey through Chilean traditional diets
Traditional diets are generally associated with health benefits and are commonly recommended in food-based dietary guidelines. As climate change intensifies in the 21st century, food-based dietary guidelines have begun integrating environmental sustainability considerations.
Consumer Perceptions and Behaviors Toward Fermented Foods: Insights From a Canadian Survey
Chronic and autoimmune diseases continue to rise across Canada, demonstrating the need for sustainable dietary strategies that promote long-term health. Fermented foods (FFs) have emerged as a potential approach, yet national data on consumption patterns and public perceptions remain largely unknown.
Current and Future Priorities for School Food and Nutrition Education in South Korea: Perspectives of Nutrition Teachers
Background/Objectives : School-based food and nutrition education is an important public health strategy for developing healthy dietary behaviors during childhood and adolescence. However, limited qualitative evidence describes how nutrition teachers, who are simultaneously responsible for school meals, perceive established educational priorities and emerging needs.
Development and Feasibility Study of Sustainable ePlate: A Web-Based Serious Game for Multidimensional Sustainable Healthy Diet Interventions in Schools
Background School-based sustainable and healthy diet (SHD) interventions often inadequately capture the multidimensional nature of sustainability, with socioeconomic and cultural dimensions frequently underrepresented. While digital interventions can facilitate the integration of multiple SHD components, maintaining user engagement remains a persistent challenge that can compromise intervention effectiveness.
