OBJECTIVE To examine whether the association between soft drinks consumption and child behaviour problems differs by food security status and sleep patterns in young children. DESIGN Cross-sectional observational data from the Fragile Families and Child Wellbeing Study (FFCWS), which collected information on food insecurity, soft drinks consumption, sleep patterns and child behaviour problems...

A number of empirical studies have used the Panel Study of Income Dynamics (PSID) to examine the behavior of consumption at the household level [Hall and Mishkin (1982), Altonji and Siow (1985) Hotz, Kydland and Sedlacek (1985), Zeldes (1985) Altonji (1986)]. Because the PSID does not report total consumption, these researchers have used instead food expenditures as a proxy for consumption. The...

Rational junk-food consumption is analyzed within an expected lifetime utility maximizing framework in which longevity and productivity rise with health, and health deteriorates with junk-food consumption. As long as the junk food’s relative taste-price differential is positive, the consumer’s rational diet deviates from the physiologically optimal one and generates lower than maximal levels of...

BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES Fast-food companies have been reproached for rising obesity levels due to aggressive marketing tactics targeted at children. They have countered that parents should be held responsible considering their critical role as nutritional gatekeepers. This study examined the comparative effects of media exposure and parental mediation on Indonesian children's fast food consum...

Soft drink and fast food are energy dense foodstuffs that are heavily marketed to adolescents, and are likely to be important in terms of risk of obesity. This study sought to examine the influences on soft drink and fast food consumption among adolescents as part of a cross-sectional survey of 2,719 adolescents (aged 11-16) from 93 randomly selected schools in New South Wales, Australia. Stude...

Acknowledgements My dissertation would not have been possible without the support from my advisors, colleagues, friends, and family members, who provided invaluable guidance, support, advice, and encouragement. I would like to take this opportunity to thank them. I am greatly indebted to my advisor, Joachim Vosgerau. His excellent guidance, support, and encouragement always kept me on track and...

INTRODUCTION Despite the increased consumption of fruits and vegetables in the Brazilian population, a great proportion of people do not meet the recommendations. Purchasing sites associated with fruit and vegetable consumption has not been widely explored. OBJECTIVE To explore the association between fruit and vegetable purchasing and consumption sites and the consumption of these foods amon...

BACKGROUND Neighborhood food cues have been inconsistently related to residents' health, possibly due to variations in residents' sensitivity to such cues. This study sought to investigate the degree to which children's predisposition to eat upon exposure to food environment and food cues (external eating), could explain differences in strength of associations between their food consumption and...

Although food supply statistics are commonly used in ecological studies of diet and disease, little information is available on how they compare with reported intakes of foods. The objective of the present study was to compare fruit and vegetable availability with estimates of national mean intakes derived from national food consumption surveys. Food availability statistics from the FAO were us...