A nutrition/health mindset on commercial Big Data and drivers of food demand in modern and traditional systems

Dubé, Laurette; Labban, Alice; Moubarac, Jean‐Claude; Heslop, Gabriela; Ma, Yu; Paquet, Catherine

doi:10.1111/nyas.12595

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“…The lack of main effect of marketing indicators on either food consumption measures contrasts with earlier work analyzing store sales data [69] showing that the same reinforcing marketing practices that increase sales of unhealthful food (namely soft drinks), when applied to healthful food (namely vegetables), were also successful in increasing their sales. Discount frequency results also contrast with findings from a recent study showing that the increase in sales associated with frequency of price discounts was largest for less healthy compared to healthier food categories [70].…”

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The moderating role of food cue sensitivity in the behavioral response of children to their neighborhood food environment: a cross-sectional study

Paquet

Montigny²,

Labban

et al. 2017

Int J Behav Nutr Phys Act

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BackgroundNeighborhood food cues have been inconsistently related to residents’ health, possibly due to variations in residents’ sensitivity to such cues. This study sought to investigate the degree to which children’s predisposition to eat upon exposure to food environment and food cues (external eating), could explain differences in strength of associations between their food consumption and the type of food outlets and marketing strategies present in their neighborhood.MethodsData were obtained from 616 6–12 y.o. children recruited into a population-based cross-sectional study in which food consumption was measured through a 24-h food recall and responsiveness to food cues measured using the external eating scale. The proportion of food retailers within 3 km of residence considered as “healthful” was calculated using a Geographical Information System. Neighborhood exposure to food marketing strategies (displays, discount frequency, variety, and price) for vegetables and soft drinks were derived from a geocoded digital marketing database. Adjusted mixed models with spatial covariance tested interaction effects of food environment indicators and external eating on food consumption.ResultsIn children with higher external eating scores, healthful food consumption was more positively related to vegetable displays, and more negatively to the display and variety of soft drinks. No interactions were observed for unhealthful food consumption and no main effects of food environment indicators were found on food consumption.ConclusionsChildren differ in their responsiveness to marketing-related visual food cues on the basis of their external eating phenotype. Strategies aiming to increase the promotion of healthful relative to unhealthful food products in stores may be particularly beneficial for children identified as being more responsive to food cues.Electronic supplementary materialThe online version of this article (doi:10.1186/s12966-017-0540-9) contains supplementary material, which is available to authorized users.

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The moderating role of food cue sensitivity in the behavioral response of children to their neighborhood food environment: a cross-sectional study

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Montigny²,

Labban

et al. 2017

Int J Behav Nutr Phys Act

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“…Only one subdimension (Preparation), and 11 out of 45 items, were regarded as neither traditional nor modern. Within the subdimension of Ingredients, four out of 11 facets were classified as neither traditional nor modern in the present study (eating salt, fruit, fiber, and meat), although previous research suggests that salt consumption is traditional in Japan [ 4 , 5 ] and international research classifies meat consumption as modern [ 4 , 6 , 7 ] and fruit and fiber consumption as traditional [ 14 , 22 , 23 , 24 ]. Reasons for this might be that (1) international research suggests that high salt consumption is characteristic of modern eating behavior [ 15 , 26 ], yet salt consumption in Japan might not differ between traditional and modern eating, but instead, might be a marker of both; (2) items might have been formulated suboptimally—e.g., ‘fiber’ being hard for lay people to translate into specific foods; and (3) eating a little bit of meat might be traditional in Japan, but eating a lot of meat might be modern [ 4 ].…”

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What Constitutes Traditional and Modern Eating? The Case of Japan

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Traditional Japanese dietary culture might be a factor contributing to the high life expectancy in Japan. As little is known about what constitutes traditional and modern eating in Japan, the aims of the current study were to (1) comprehensively compile and systematize the various facets of traditional and modern eating; and (2) investigate whether these facets also apply to traditional and modern eating in Japan. In Study 1, an extensive international literature review was performed. Forty-five facets of traditional and modern eating were compiled and systematized into the dimensions of what and how people eat, and into eleven separate subdimensions. In Study 2, 340 adults from Japan answered a questionnaire. Results showed that traditional and modern eating in Japan is reflected in both what and how people eat. Within these two dimensions, ten subdimensions were found: the ingredients, processing, temporal origin, spatial origin, and variety of consumed foods, as well as temporal, spatial, and social aspects, appreciation, and concerns when eating. This study provides a broad compilation of facets of traditional and modern eating in Japan. Future research should investigate how these facets are related to life expectancy and health.

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“…The roadmap paper by Dubé et al . proposes to capitalize on 21st‐century Big Data and advanced analytics, such as those used by Buckridge et al .…”

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Agriculture, health, and wealth convergence: bridging traditional food systems and modern agribusiness solutions

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Webb

Arora

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Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

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The causes of many vexing challenges facing 21st-century society are at the nexus of systems involved in agriculture, health and wealth production, consumption, and distribution. Using food as a test bed, and on the basis of emerging roadmaps that set achievable objectives over a 1-to 3-year horizon, we introduce this special feature with convergence thinking and practice at its core. Specifically, we discuss academic papers structured around four themes: (1) evidence for a need for convergence and underlying mechanisms at the individual and societal levels; (2) strategy for mainstreaming convergence as a driver of business engagement and innovation; (3) convergence in policy and governance; (4) convergence in metrics and methods. Academic papers under each theme are accompanied by a roadmap paper reporting on the current status of concrete transformative convergence-building projects associated with that theme. We believe that the insights provided by these papers have the potential to enable all actors throughout society to singly and collectively work to build supply and demand for nutritious food, in both traditional and modern food systems, while placing the burdens of malnutrition and ill health on their core strategic agendas.

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A nutrition/health mindset on commercial Big Data and drivers of food demand in modern and traditional systems

Cited by 32 publications

References 133 publications

The moderating role of food cue sensitivity in the behavioral response of children to their neighborhood food environment: a cross-sectional study

The moderating role of food cue sensitivity in the behavioral response of children to their neighborhood food environment: a cross-sectional study

What Constitutes Traditional and Modern Eating? The Case of Japan

Agriculture, health, and wealth convergence: bridging traditional food systems and modern agribusiness solutions

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