Across five studies (including one supplementary study), we demonstrate that the length of brand names influences expectations healthiness in foods and preference for healthy foods. Specifically, with shorter (vs. longer) are perceived as healthier, consumers prefer such The potency healthfulness partially mediate effect. Shorter less potent; therefore, expected to be leading a greater preferen...

The COVID-19 pandemic has led many countries to implement restrictions on individual freedom stop the contagion. imposition of lockdowns affected socio-economic aspects and, in particular, eating habits, highlighting need analyse healthiness new consumption patterns. aim our study was investigate changes adherence Mediterranean diet, a dietary model universally recognized as healthy, that have ...

Unhealthy processed food products are increasingly dominating over healthy foods, making food and nutrition environments unhealthier. Development and implementation of strong government healthy food policies is currently being circumvented in many countries by powerful food industry lobbying. In order to increase accountability of both governments and the private sector for their actions, and i...

This paper describes pMeasure, a tool for measuring large scale networks, particularly the Internet, from end to end. As the Internet grows in size and complexity, fine-grained, precise and timely measurements are needed to ensure its healthiness and ultimately benefit those mission-critical applications deployed on the Internet. The existing measurement infrastructures are unable to satisfy th...

This paper introduces techniques to organise predicate-semantic models in a hierarchical structure so that a new model can inherit the laws of more abstract ones. Generic composition is used to simplify the manipulation of predicates. Necessary restrictions are imposed on the definition of each model so that the inheritance relation can be established by checking a few conditions on the healthi...

An important issue in research into access to healthy food is how best to compare the price of foods. The appropriate metric for comparison has been debated at length, with proponents variously stating that food prices should be compared in terms of their energy content, their edible mass, or their typical portion size. In this article we assessed the impact of using different food price metric...