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It is widely believed that healthy eating is relatively expensive whereas ‘junk food’ is relatively cheap. This has led to an assumption that poor diets and obesity are directly caused by economic deprivation. Some studies have compared the price-per-calorie of various types of food. The...
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they market when they face consumers who care about the healthy/unhealthy attributes of the product but incur in emotional/health … that produces the unhealthy food charges a higher price and obtains a larger share of the market unless the emotional/health …
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In this paper we examine the role of relative food prices in determining the recent increase in body weight in Italy. Cross-price elasticities of unhealthy and healthy foods estimated by a demand system provide a consistent framework to evaluate substitution effects, when a close association is...
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promote healthy eating that address sales/prices, consumption, and/or health outcomes. It presents policy relevant findings on …/prices, food consumption, and health outcomes, as well as circumstantial factors under which food subsidies have greater impact … reports that there might be a low impact of these programs on health outcomes. The amount of the subsidy (higher amounts tend …
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of Public Health, and Healthy Eating Research (HER) met for a Healthy Retail Research Convention in Washington, D … and generating questions for future research, with an intentional focus on reducing health disparities and improving …
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