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| Provedor de dados: |
AgEcon
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| País: |
United States
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| Título: |
USDA's Healthy Eating Index and Nutrition Information
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| Autores: |
Variyam, Jayachandran N.
Blaylock, James R.
Smallwood, David M.
Basiotis, P. Peter
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| Data: |
2005-11-16
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| Ano: |
1998
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| Palavras-chave: |
Diet quality
Healthy Eating Index
Nutrient demand
Nutrition knowledge
Health inputs
Health production
Food Consumption/Nutrition/Food Safety
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| Resumo: |
A comprehensive model is developed to measure the extent that nutrition knowledge and diet-health awareness, among other factors, influence an individual's Healthy Eating Index (HEI), USDA's measure of overall diet quality. This is the first study that rigorously attempts to examine variation in the index across population groups by controlling for personal and household characteristics and nutrition information levels, as well as test for the endogeneity of nutrition information. Results indicate that one's level of nutrition information has an important influence on one's HEI and that nutrition information and the HEI are simultaneously determined. Other factors explaining variations in HEI's across individuals are income and education levels, race, ethnicity, and age. Evidence supports the hypothesis that higher education promotes more healthful food choices through better acquisition and use of health information.
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| Tipo: |
Report
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| Idioma: |
Inglês
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| Identificador: |
19104
http://purl.umn.edu/33588
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| Editor: |
AgEcon Search
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| Relação: |
United States Department of Agriculture>Economic Research Service>Technical Bulletins
Technical Bulletin No. 1866
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| Formato: |
26
application/pdf
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