Understanding how an adequate food security may be determined, how nutritional intakes
evolve over time and are influenced by global dynamics are few of the questions scholars …

This review provides a classification of public policies to promote healthier eating as well as
a structured mapping of existing measures in Europe. Complete coverage of alternative …

• Despite the rise in diet related chronic diseases and associated costs, government policies
continue to have conventional perspectives on agricultural production, industry support, food …

The simultaneous increases in obesity in almost all countries seem to be driven mainly by
changes in the global food system, which is producing more processed, affordable, and …

Unhealthy diets can lead to various diseases, which in turn can translate into a bigger
burden for the state in the form of health services and lost production. Obesity alone has …

Issues pertaining to consumer understanding of food health claims are complex and difficult
to disentangle because there is a surprising lack of multidisciplinary research aimed at …

We adopt a multi-country setup to show that years of schooling have a causal protective
effect on the body mass index of females living in nine European countries. No such effect is …

Although there is a long-term decrease in the consumption of fruits and vegetables
(hereafter F&V), fresh-cut products, because of their convenience, represent a valid …

Today, the European food system is characterized by unhealthy dietary trends,
environmentally unsustainable production, and a dependency on an ageing farming …

This paper focuses on nutrition and health claims with the aim of verifying if these claims are
of interest to different types of consumers, analysing the key variables that characterise their …