China has been experiencing a rapid increase in the prevalence of overweight/obesity after 1990, and China now has the largest number of overweight people in the world. The increasing overweight/obesity will cause a substantial increase in diet-related chronic diseases and economic and social...

Improving dietary knowledge has the potential to prevent obesity and overweight and, if effective, is a highly feasible policy measure. This paper proposes a new framework to examine the effects of dietary knowledge on nutrient intake and diet quality. The framework allows the effects to differ...

This paper demonstrates that dietary knowledge can influence nutrient intake differently depending on whether expected food availability is increasing or decreasing. Using data from China, we find that overall dietary knowledge has larger and more statistically significant effects on total...