[HTML][HTML] The Nutrient Rich Foods Index helps to identify healthy, affordable foods

A Drewnowski - The American journal of clinical nutrition, 2010 - Elsevier
Background: The Nutrient Rich Foods (NRF) Index is a formal scoring system that ranks
foods on the basis of their nutrient content. When used in conjunction with a food prices …

Obesity, diets, and social inequalities

A Drewnowski - Nutrition reviews, 2009 - academic.oup.com
Obesity and type 2 diabetes follow a socioeconomic gradient. Highest rates are observed
among groups with the lowest levels of education and income and in the most deprived …

[HTML][HTML] Genetic background of taste perception, taste preferences, and its nutritional implications: a systematic review

J Diószegi, E Llanaj, R Ádány - Frontiers in genetics, 2019 - frontiersin.org
Background: The rise in nutrition-related morbidity and mortality requires public health
intervention programs targeting nutritional behavior. In addition to socio-economical, socio …

Healthy convenience: nudging students toward healthier choices in the lunchroom

AS Hanks, DR Just, LE Smith… - Journal of public …, 2012 - academic.oup.com
Background In the context of food, convenience is generally associated with less healthy
foods. Given the reality of present-biased preferences, if convenience was associated with …

Factors influencing healthy eating habits among college students: An application of the health belief model

S Deshpande, MD Basil, DZ Basil - Health marketing quarterly, 2009 - Taylor & Francis
Poor eating habits are an important public health issue that has large health and economic
implications. Many food preferences are established early, but because people make more …

[HTML][HTML] Sociodemographic differences in motives for food selection: results from the LoCard cross-sectional survey

H Konttinen, O Halmesvaara, M Fogelholm… - International Journal of …, 2021 - Springer
Background Although sociodemographic differences in dietary intake have been widely
studied, the up-to-date evidence on the corresponding variations in motives for food …

The role of built environments in physical activity, eating, and obesity in childhood

JF Sallis, K Glanz - The future of children, 2006 - JSTOR
Over the past forty years various changes in the US" built environment" have promoted
sedentary lifestyles and less healthful diets. James Sallis and Karen Glanz investigate …

[HTML][HTML] Interventions in small food stores to change the food environment, improve diet, and reduce risk of chronic disease

J Gittelsohn, M Rowan, P Gadhoke - Preventing chronic disease, 2012 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Methods From May 2009 through September 2010, we used PubMed, web-based searches,
and listservs to identify small-store interventions that met the following criteria: 1) a focus on …

[HTML][HTML] Food choices and diet costs: an economic analysis

A Drewnowski, N Darmon - The Journal of nutrition, 2005 - Elsevier
ABSTRACT Obesity in the United States is a socioeconomic issue. It is related to limited
social and economic resources and may be linked to disparities in access to healthy foods …

[HTML][HTML] Food safety in home kitchens: a synthesis of the literature

C Byrd-Bredbenner, J Berning… - International journal of …, 2013 - mdpi.com
Although foodborne illness is preventable, more than 56,000 people per year become ill in
the US, creating high economic costs, loss of productivity and reduced quality of life for …