Abstract Exercising and eating healthy are not just an individual choice, but influenced by the social environment. Family members, friends or neighbors influence (un)healthy choices individuals make, yet little is known about other important contacts: colleagues. Many people spend at least 8 hours a day work, mostly surrounded same As third of daily calories consumed in workplace lot time spen...

We present a field experiment to study the effects of non-monetary incentives on healthy food choices 282 children in elementary schools. Previous interventions have typically paid participants for eating, but this often may not be feasible. introduce system where items are graded based their nutritional value, involving parents or classmates as change agents by providing them with information ...

OBJECTIVE To compare the participation of food groups - fresh and minimally processed, processed, and ultra-processed - in the diet of students (n=1357) from Belo Horizonte, MG, Brazil, in accordance with the number of school meals consumed daily. METHODS Four groups were defined: children that did not consume school meals and children that consumed one, two, or three school meals daily. Food...

Despite increasing recognition of the role nutrition plays in the health of current and future generations, many women struggle to eat healthy. We used the PhotoVoice method to engage 10 rural women in identifying perceived barriers and facilitators to healthy eating in their homes and community. They took 354 photographs, selected and wrote captions for 62 images, and explored influential fact...