The present article examines how the presence of others from a different social group (i.e., outgroup audience) influences consumers' food choices relative to their own ingroup audience). In four studies, using various types memberships (race, university affiliation, and work affiliation), we first find that consumers are more likely make healthy in racial (Study 1) 2) (vs. ingroup) audiences. ...

This paper is an experience report based on challenges encountered when designing scalable mobile persuasive HCI applications to help users make informed choices over their food consumption. We recently developed Tagliatelle, a social tagging system to help users to accurately monitor and assess their dietary behaviour and to promote healthier food choices. In this paper we propose a similar sy...

BACKGROUND In our increasingly obesogenic environment, in which high-calorie convenience foods are readily available, food choices can drastically affect weight and overall health. Learned food preferences, which are developed through repeated pairings with positively and negatively valenced stimuli, can contribute to obesity susceptibility if positive attitudes toward high-calorie foods are de...

OBJECTIVE In the context of a food purchasing environment filled with advertising and promotions, and an increased desire from policy makers to guide individuals toward choosing healthier foods, this study tests whether priming methods that use healthy food adverts to increase preference for healthier food generalize to a representative population. METHODS In two studies (Study 1 n = 143; Stu...

Virtual reality is used in marketing research to shape food selection and purchase decisions. Could it be used to counteract the marketing of less-nutritious foods and teach healthier food selection? This article presents interviews with Raymond Burke, Ph.D., of Indiana University Bloomington, and Rachel Jones, M.P.H., of the University of Utah College of Health. Topics covered include new mark...

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 ...

Strategies to reduce risk of obesity by influencing preschool children's eating behaviour are reviewed. The studies are placed in the context of relevant psychological processes, including inherited and acquired preferences, and behavioural traits, such as food neophobia, 'enjoyment of food' and 'satiety responsiveness'. These are important influences on how children respond to feeding practice...

Background: The State of Karnataka launched a scheme called “Arogya Karnataka” as part universal health coverage following the Integrated Public Health Policy 2017 and Vision 2025 document. With goal achieving (UHC), Karnataka, national leader in healthcare, Arogya March 2018. It was later integrated with government India's protection Ayushman Bharat Pradhan Mantri Jan Yojana(AB-PMJAY) to help ...