Using health primes to reduce unhealthy snack purchases among overweight consumers in a grocery store

Objective: Healthy-eating intentions of overweight individuals are often thwarted by the presence of attractive food temptations in grocery stores and the home environment. To support healthy-eating intentions, we tested the effectiveness of a simple health prime to reduce the purchases of energy-de...

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Published in:	International Journal of Obesity Vol. 38; no. 4; pp. 597 - 602
Main Authors:	Papies, E K, Potjes, I, Keesman, M, Schwinghammer, S, van Koningsbruggen, G M
Format:	Journal Article
Language:	English
Published:	London Nature Publishing Group UK 01.04.2014 Nature Publishing Group
Subjects:	692/699/2743/393 692/700 706/689/477 Biological and medical sciences Body mass index Calories Choice Behavior Commerce Design Diet Epidemiology Feeding Behavior Female Food Food and nutrition Food Preferences - psychology Food Supply Grocery stores Health aspects Health Knowledge, Attitudes, Practice Health pamphlets Health Promotion - methods Health Promotion and Disease Prevention Home environment Humans Impulsive Behavior Influence Internal Medicine Junk food Male Medical sciences Medicine Medicine & Public Health Metabolic Diseases Middle Aged Miscellaneous Motivation Nutrition research Obesity Obesity - epidemiology Obesity - prevention & control Original original-article Overweight Overweight persons Public Health Public health. Hygiene Public health. Hygiene-occupational medicine Questionnaires Recipes Shopping Snack foods Snacks Weight control Netherlands priming intervention behavior change food choice grocery shopping Obesity Choice Nutrition Body weight Nutrition disorder Behavior change Metabolic diseases Corporal biometry Overweight Consumer Purchases Nutritional status Public health Food
ISSN:	0307-0565, 1476-5497, 1476-5497
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