scholarly journals Nudging in der Schulmensa: Verhaltenswissenschaftliche Erkenntnisse können Ernährungsgewohnheiten positiv beeinflussen

2018 ◽  
Vol 87 (2) ◽  
pp. 109-125
Author(s):  
Hannah Schildberg-Hörisch ◽  
Philipp Thoste ◽  
Valentin Wagner
Keyword(s):  
Eating Habits ◽  
Food Choices ◽  
Healthy Eating Habits ◽  
Decision Environment ◽  
Health And Development ◽  
Weil Eine ◽  
Unbalanced Diet ◽  
Nutrition Habits ◽  
School Cafeteria

Zusammenfassung: Die Ernährung beeinflusst maßgeblich die Gesundheit und Entwicklung von Kindern. Weil eine unausgewogene Ernährung zu Konzentrationsstörungen und Müdigkeit beitragen kann, steht sie potenziell einem erfolgreichen Schulalltag entgegen. Ein (un-)gesundes Ernährungsverhalten wird früh in der Kindheit erlernt und bleibt oft bis in das Erwachsenenalter bestehen, sodass der Ernährungsbildung in Kindergärten und Schulen eine wichtige Rolle zukommt, um langfristig gesunde Essgewohnheiten zu entwickeln. Veränderungen der Rahmenbedingungen für die Essenswahl in der Schulmensa ohne Einschränkungen des bestehenden Essensangebots, sogenanntes Nudging, können Kinder unterstützend zu einer gesünderen Ernährungsweise animieren. Ziel des Beitrags ist es, die Anwendbarkeit verschiedener Nudges in der Schulmensa aufzuzeigen und hinsichtlich ihrer Effektivität zu bewerten. Summary: Nutrition affects children’s health and development. Since an unbalanced diet can contribute to concentration disorders and fatigue, it potentially hinders success at school. Healthy or unhealthy nutrition habits are adopted early in childhood and often extend to adulthood. Nutritional education in kindergartens and schools therefore plays a significant role in developing long-term healthy eating habits. Changes in the decision environment in the school cafeteria that do not restrict the available food choices, so-called nudging, can encourage children to choose a healthier diet. This paper discusses the applicability and effectiveness of different nudges in the school cafeteria.

Development of a Nutritional Management System for a Healthy Eating Habits Support System

2013 ◽  
Vol 17 (2) ◽  
pp. 324-334 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yuta Tokumi ◽  
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Junki Hakamata ◽  
Masataka Tokumaru ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Tabu Search ◽  
Healthy Eating ◽  
Support System ◽  
Management System ◽  
Eating Habits ◽  
Taste Preferences ◽  
Nutritional Management ◽  
Retrieval Systems ◽  
Healthy Eating Habits

In this study, we propose a Nutritional Management System (NMS) that optimizes nutritional balance using a tabu search. Contemporary recipe retrieval systems generally retrieve a recipe either by using a keyword or by recommending a popular recipe. However, these recipe retrieval systems yield the same retrieval results for different users, and thus, the results do not necessarily reflect an individual user’s tastes. In addition, the search results delivered by many recipe retrieval systems do not always describe the nutritional details of the recipes. Therefore, we developed a Healthy Eating Habits Support System for resolving these issues. This system is composed of an NMS and a Kansei Retrieval System (KRS). The NMS retrieves nutritionally balanced menus using a tabu search. The KRS learns a user’s taste preferences, and selects menus suitable for a user’s tastes from among the menus retrieved by the NMS. The KRS needs multiple nutritionally balanced menus to learn a user’s taste preferences. Thus, in this study, we simulated scenarios to examine whether the NMS can retrieve multiple nutritionally balanced menus in the long-term without duplication, using quasi recipe data and real recipe data. When we used quasi recipe data in a simulation with a very large number of recipes, the NMS could retrieve a sustained quantity of menus in the long-term. In addition, when we used real recipe data, the NMS could quickly retrieve menus over the long-term. Therefore, the effectiveness of the NMS was confirmed.

scholarly journals U.S. Sustainable Food Market Generation Z Consumer Segments

2019 ◽  
Vol 11 (13) ◽  
pp. 3607 ◽  
Author(s):  
Su ◽  
Tsai ◽  
Chen ◽  
Lv
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Healthy Eating ◽  
Eating Habits ◽  
Food Choices ◽  
Product Attributes ◽  
Environmental Consciousness ◽  
Sustainable Food ◽  
Ecological Awareness ◽  
Generation Z ◽  
Healthy Eating Habits

This study explores the interaction between environmental consciousness and sustainable food attributes as predictors in the market segmentation process for sustainable foods with respect to United States (U.S.) Generation Z (Gen Z) consumers. This study was executed using a cross-national, web-based survey to analyze and categorize Gen Z female (n = 435) and male (n = 377) consumers between 18 and 23 years of age living in the continental United States. The objectives of this study were to classify U.S. Gen Z consumers into unique segments based on their environmental consciousness and to assess the functional relationships among the following: (a) their degree of ecological awareness; (b) the importance of the perception of sustainable food attributes; (c) their food choices associated with healthy eating habits; and (d) sociodemographics. Survey data were analyzed using cluster analysis of consumer groups based on environmental consciousness. Environmental consciousness was measured using a composite score of the environmental involvement scale and the environmental values scale. Gen Z consumers with high environmental consciousness (sustainable activists) and moderate ecological awareness (sustainable believers) considered more eco-friendly and healthy product attributes when purchasing sustainable food, whereas Gen Z consumers with low environmental consciousness (sustainable moderates) considered more extrinsic product attributes (e.g., price and convenience). Furthermore, the results indicate that food choices associated with healthy eating habits could be used to develop a profile for different eco-conscious Gen Z consumer groups. The contributions of this study are twofold. First, for academic researchers, this paper extends marketing segmentation research concerning environmentally sensitive young consumers. Second, for industry professionals, this study provides food retailers or food service operators with sustainable consumer values that will aid in the development of effective, green marketing strategies to better attract and meet the sustainability expectations of Gen Z—the consumer segment with the most spending power of any generation.

scholarly journals Effectiveness of an educational game-based intervention for enhancing nutritional knowledge of elementary school students

RENOTE ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 19 (1) ◽  
pp. 237-247
Author(s):  
Lucas Florêncio de Brito ◽  
Ricardo Argenton Ramos ◽  
Jaelson Freire Brelaz de Castro ◽  
João Araújo ◽  
Rodrigo Pereira Ramos
Keyword(s):  
Eating Habits ◽  
Educational Game ◽  
Control Group ◽  
Nutritional Knowledge ◽  
Long Term Effects ◽  
Game Based Learning ◽  
School Students ◽  
Healthy Eating Habits ◽  
Short And Long Term

Obesity can generate short and long term effects on health. Nutritionalknowledge is important to increase the potential of acquiring healthy eating habits and prevent obesity. In this study, it was investigated an educational game-basedintervention with the Nutrikids digital game to improve nutritional knowledge. Onehundred and sixty-four Brazilians fifth graders were divided into the following fourgroups: one that played the Nutrikids game; the lecture-game group, which received traditional classes and played Nutrikids; the lecture group, which received traditional classes only; and the control group, with no intervention. The results suggest that nutritional knowledge in students can be improved more effectively through game-based learning than traditional classes.

scholarly journals The Healthy School Canteen Programme: A Promising Intervention to Make the School Food Environment Healthier

2012 ◽  
Vol 2012 ◽  
pp. 1-8 ◽  
Author(s):  
Fréderike Mensink ◽  
Saskia Antoinette Schwinghammer ◽  
Astrid Smeets
Keyword(s):  
Food Environment ◽  
Eating Habits ◽  
Food Choices ◽  
School Food ◽  
School Directors ◽  
School Canteen ◽  
Healthy Eating Habits ◽  
School Food Environment ◽  
Food Decisions ◽  
School Cafeterias

The environment can exert a strong influence on people's food decisions. In order to facilitate students to make more healthy food choices and to develop healthy eating habits, it is important that the school food environment is healthy. The Healthy School Canteen programme of The Netherlands Nutrition Centre is an intervention that helps schools to make their cafeteria's offering healthier. A descriptive study was conducted by an independent research agency to survey the perceptions, experiences, and opinions of users of the programme (school directors, parents, students, and health professionals). Results show that directors and students of participating schools perceive their cafeteria's offering to be healthier after implementing the programme than prior to implementation. Next, further important results of the study are highlighted and relations with other projects, caveats, and practical recommendations are discussed. It is concluded that the Healthy School Canteen programme is a promising intervention to change the school food environment but that further research is needed to ultimately establish its effectiveness. Also, it will be a challenge to motivate all schools to enroll in the programme in order to achieve the goal of the Dutch Government of all Dutch school cafeterias being healthy by 2015.

scholarly journals Clinically Relevant Mathematical Model for the BCG-based Treatment Of Type 1 Diabetes

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Teddy Lazebnik ◽  
Svetlana Bunimovich-Mendrazitsky ◽  
Alex Kiselyov
Keyword(s):  
Type 1 Diabetes ◽  
Eating Habits ◽  
Interaction Network ◽  
Glucose Consumption ◽  
Healthy Controls ◽  
Glucose Levels ◽  
Healthy Eating Habits ◽  
High Level

This work introduces a model of immunotherapy treatment, namely the Bacillus Calmette-Guerin (BCG) vaccine, of type 1 diabetes (T1D). The model takes into consideration a clinically relevant interaction network between multiple immune cells and compartments. A set of ordinary differential equations (ODEs) is introduced to capture the connectivity between these variables and clinical presentation of the disease. Four subsets of the T1D patients and healthy controls that exhibit normal and high-level glucose consumption are evaluated. The results that obtained for mice, suggest that BCG treatment of the T1D patients that follow healthy eating habits normalizes glucose to levels observed in non-diabetic controls. Furthermore, glucose consumption profoundly influences disease progression. The stable equilibrium state with constant glucose levels is not attainable without repeated BCG treatment. This outcome suggests that immunotherapy may modulate molecular and cellular manifestations of the disease but it does not eliminate T1D. Of note, our data indicate that the BCG immunotherapy treatment may benefit healthy controls on a high-glucose diet. One may speculate the preventive BCG treatment to provide long-term health benefits in this specific cohort.

scholarly journals The good face of media: Kids weight loss competitions

2017 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 39
Author(s):  
Razan Shwayhat
Keyword(s):  
Weight Loss ◽  
Everyday Life ◽  
Healthy Eating ◽  
Eating Habits ◽  
Food Choices ◽  
The Other ◽  
Unhealthy Food ◽  
Healthy Eating Habits ◽  
Long Time ◽  
The Media

Media has been blamed for long time and more these days for spreading bad eating habits, inactivity and making unhealthy food choices especially among children. Through my work in the media especially TV, I wanted to use the other side of media and influence healthy eating habits among children and adults. Competitions drive challenge and determination, I created the first Arabic weight loss competition for kids on TV titled "Ghizaak Sihtak" may be translated to " Eat Well Live Well  Competition". The competition allows kids to live their normal everyday life (not in camps) and teaches them how to make healthy choices, be more active and thus lose weight. The Ghizaak Sihtak Compeition helped many kids lose more than 20Kilos in around 6months and keep it off for 2 years so far. This year - the 5th season for   kids - 10 kids started are participating in this weight loss journey while many others are watching them and are affected with their stories. The Compeition is broadcasted on Roya TV.

scholarly journals Does sugar sweeten the pill of low income? Inequalities in the consumption of various foods between Finnish income groups from 1985 to 2012

2017 ◽  
Vol 10 (1) ◽  
pp. 61-71
Author(s):  
Taru Lindblom
Keyword(s):  
Food Consumption ◽  
Low Income ◽  
Eating Habits ◽  
Vegetable Consumption ◽  
Food Choices ◽  
Sugar Consumption ◽  
Income Groups ◽  
Dependent Variables ◽  
Healthy Eating Habits ◽  
Nationally Representative

Numerous studies have shown that social inequality can be reflected through poor food choices. Factors such as low-income, low level of education and low socio-economic position are associated with food consumption behaviours that are considered less beneficial. This study explores the disparities found among income and other socio-economic groups in terms of their food consumption shares. To find out how the food consumption patterns have developed in Finland, a nationally representative Household Budget Survey for the years 1985–2012 is used. Food consumption trends of the income quintiles are analyzed with ANOVA. The shares of food consumption expenditure spent on Meat, Vegetables, Fruit and berries, and Sugars are used as dependent variables; while education, age and household type are used as control variables. The disparities between the income groups have diminished, with meat and sugar consumption being most affected by the studied factors. Low income does not necessarily translate to a household’s less healthy eating habits. Rather, households in the lowest quintile are now depicted by the convergence of their fruit and vegetable consumption with the other income groups.

scholarly journals Preschoolers’ Dietary Behaviours: Parents’ Perspectives

2006 ◽  
Vol 67 (2) ◽  
pp. 67-71 ◽  
Author(s):  
Patricia Tucker ◽  
Jennifer D. Irwin ◽  
Meizi He ◽  
L. Michelle Sangster Bouck ◽  
Graham Pollett
Keyword(s):  
Dietary Intake ◽  
Healthy Eating ◽  
Eating Habits ◽  
Food Choices ◽  
Healthy Food ◽  
Team Members ◽  
Dietary Behaviours ◽  
Health Related ◽  
Group Interviews

Purpose: Preschoolers’ dietary intake behaviours are described from the perspective of their parents. Methods: A maximum variation sample of 71 parents of preschoolers participated in this qualitative study. Ten semi-structured focus group interviews were conducted. Two experienced moderators facilitated all focus groups, which were audio-recorded and transcribed verbatim. Strategies to ensure trustworthiness of the data were employed throughout the study. Two team members independently performed inductive content analysis. NVivo software was used to code the emerging themes. Results: Parents identified food and food issues as key health-related behaviours among preschoolers. Parents discussed challenges to healthy eating, including time limitations and societal pressures, as well as methods for facilitating healthy food choices, including bribery, education, and being creative with food. Conclusions: Dietary intake is on the minds of preschoolers’ parents. Unfortunately, some methods that parents currently use to promote healthy food choices may be more detrimental than beneficial for children in the long term. Parents’ keen interest in their preschoolers’ eating habits may make them particularly receptive to learning about and facilitating healthy choices in more behaviourally appropriate ways. Widespread educational messages about the benefits and detriments of various strategies to facilitate healthy eating among preschoolers therefore seem warranted.

scholarly journals McHealthy

2016 ◽  
Vol 58 (1) ◽  
pp. 6-22 ◽  
Author(s):  
Elisa K. Chan ◽  
Robert Kwortnik ◽  
Brian Wansink
Keyword(s):  
Healthy Eating ◽  
Eating Habits ◽  
Saturated Fat ◽  
Food Choices ◽  
Healthy Food ◽  
Policy Makers ◽  
Consistent Finding ◽  
Healthy Eating Habits ◽  
Habitual Behavior ◽  
Selection Of

Food choices are often habitual, which can perpetuate unhealthy behaviors; that is, selection of foods high in sodium, saturated fat, and calories. This article extends previous research by examining how marketing incentives can encourage healthy food choices. Building on research examining marketing incentives, temporal goals, and habitual behavior, this research shows that certain incentives (behavioral rewards vs. financial discounts) affect individuals with healthy and less healthy eating habits differently. A field study conducted at a corporate cafeteria and three lab studies converge on a consistent finding: The effects of marketing incentives on healthy food choice are particularly prominent for people who have less healthy eating habits. Results showed that behavioral rewards generated a 28.5% (vs. 5.5%) increase in salad sales; behavioral rewards also led to 2 pounds more weight loss for individuals with less healthy eating habits. The research offers important implications for scholars, the food industry, consumers, governments, and policy makers.

scholarly journals Relationships between parents’ academic backgrounds and incomes and building students’ healthy eating habits

PeerJ ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 6 ◽  
pp. e4563 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kazi Enamul Hoque ◽  
Kazi Fardinul Hoque ◽  
Revethy A/P Thanabalan
Keyword(s):  
Healthy Eating ◽  
Eating Habits ◽  
Food Choices ◽  
Healthy Food ◽  
Eating Habit ◽  
Primary School Students ◽  
School Students ◽  
Healthy Eating Habits ◽  
The Impact ◽  
One Way Anova

Background Building healthy eating habit is essential for all people. School and family are the prime institutions to instill this habit during early age. This study is aimed at understanding the impact of family such as parents’ educations and incomes on building students’ healthy eating habits. Methods A survey on building students’ eating habits was conducted among primary school students of grade 4 (11 years) and 5 (12 years) from Kulim district, Malaysia. Data from 318 respondents were analysed. Descriptive statistics were used to find the present scenario of their knowledge, attitude and practices towards their eating habits while one-way ANOVA and independent sample t-test were used to find the differences between their practices based on students’ gender, parents’ educations and incomes. Results The study finds that the students have a good knowledge of types of healthy food but yet their preferences are towards the unhealthy food. Though the students’ gender and parents’ educations are not found significantly related to students’ knowledge, attitude and practices towards healthy eating habits, parents’ incomes have significant influence on promoting the healthy eating habit. Discussion Findings of this study can be useful to guide parents in healthy food choices and suggest them to be models to their children in building healthy eating habits.

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