Abstract Mobile health (mHealth) technologies for self-monitoring health-relevant parameters such as heart frequency, sleeping patterns or exercise regimes aim at fostering healthy behavior change and increasing the individual users to promote maintain their health. We argue that this aspect of mHealth supports healthism, shift from institutional responsibility public toward engagement in maint...

BACKGROUND Interpretive front-of-pack nutrition labels are better understood than non-interpretive labels. However, robust evidence on the effects of such labels on consumer food purchases in the real-world is lacking. Our aim is to assess the effects of two interpretive front-of-pack nutrition labels, compared with a non-interpretive label, on the healthiness of consumer food purchases. METH...

Food choices determine consumers’ dietary and energy intakes, in turn their risk of obesity diet-related diseases. Factors affecting food are complex, varied, inter-connected. The aims this study were to assess the relative importance four factors influencing (taste, price, healthiness, convenience) identify segments consumers according ratings. Australian (n = 1,558) aged 18 + years completed ...

• Participants evaluated meat substitute (MS) products less environmentally friendly than meat. MS as unhealthier Compared to traditional goods like meat, cheese and fish, were more unnatural. Consumers seemed question the benefits provided over In an attempt move consumers toward a sustainable healthy diet, have flooded market. However, tend be conservative about new food technologies that are...

Consumer perceptions towards healthier meat products are now mainly associated with how is produced and processed; the physical chemical composition; nutritional quality; sensory properties, social, ethic, or religious aspects. The main purpose of this condensed review was to summarise most recent studies on consumer contribute a better knowledge social awareness about healthiness by disseminat...

We present a generic framework of UTP theories for describing systems whose behaviour is characterised by regular time-slots, compatible with the general structure of the Circus language [WC01a]. This “slotted-Circus” framework is parameterised by the particular way in which event histories are observable within a time-slot, and specifies what laws a desired parameterisation must obey in order ...