An explanation of the current nutrition facts label required by the FDA. Contains facts and statistics about the American diet and use of the labeling system.
The author discusses the relation between the college atmosphere and how it affects college females eating behaviors. This includes components such as peer pressure as well as nutrition. This concept relates to eating pathology found among female students on college campuses. Linder Danielle interviews college females in order to determine what aspects lead to such situations and what nutritional habits they take part in such as dietary pills and caloric intake restriction.
In this article they start out with background information about health and nutrition literacy. Then it is explained how important it is for people, and students to be made aware of this. It talks about the importance of having trainers and professionals help schools and people to increase there health.
This article talks about how nutrition and the food items that are contained in the product are listed on the side of the product. This article is very interesting because it talks about how many labels over exaggerate exactly how health the product is. "fat free", or "low carb" foods are actually not healthy to eat. It discusses how looks can be deceiving when eating/buying certain products.
This article discusses a study that was done to test the understanding of patients literacy of food labels. It was tested by a test known as, REALM, and given to adults. This test showed that doctors need to provide nutrition information to patients to improve there health before and after surgery.
Scheibehenne conducted computerized surveys in a mall food court in Berlin, Germany. In a controlled setting, 20 different platter options of food were presented and customers were able to choose their meal freely. After choosing, they completed a computerized survey called an FCQ of food choice questionnaire. The unique purpose of this study was to determine the level in which humans make food choices based on heuristics, or "rule of thumb" choices. Interestingly, the results from this study show that the heuristic choices that humans make are just as significant as any other reason for making food decisions. This suggests that nutrition labels on a cereal box, for example, may not be influencing humans as much as the heuristic approach to food choice.
Pearce conducted research throughout the country of New Zealand. The purpose was to study the relationships between how easily accessible fast-food restaurants are to the consumer and the effects of having a proper recommended nutritional diet. Surprisingly, this study suggested that neighborhood access to fast-food restaurants is not a likely factor in unhealthy diets. I may not use this study in my research paper, as I feel that it does not provide conclusive "either or" results.
This article surrounds the idea that obesity in college students can be traced to eating disordered behaviors. They conducted research of students with different weights in order to find which weight group had the least amount of nutritional education. The higher weight group would partake in such unhealthy activities such as binge eating and a "preoccupation with food".
This study is questioning whether the legislation passed called the Nutrition Labeling and Education act actually causes consumers to purchase healthier food. The purpose of the study was to determine if the new labeling would affect how the consumers ate.
Complex diet regimens are starting to look like exotic mortgages and, just like a reliable savings account, good old calorie counting is coming back into fashion.
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The research found by the author focuses on college students and how they choose the foods they eat at the food courts on college campuses. It only includes sixteen students at one college but the author finds very important information concerning food selection. They focus upon college students because it is the time of transition from childhood to adulthood.
The research found by the author focuses on college students and how they choose the foods they eat at the food courts on college campuses. It only includes sixteen students at one college but the author finds very important information concerning food selection. They focus upon college students because it is the time of transition from childhood to adulthood.
The study was made to determine what sociodemographic components affect food panel label use. It is targeted at adults and was found that more women with higher incomes are more likely to use the food panel. It was determined that the labels were used to maintain a healthy body weight based upon the information on the label. The survey was random across 50 states and the District of Columbia.
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