Food label use and awareness of nutritional information and recommendations among persons with chronic disease

Lewis, John E.; Arheart, Kristopher L.; LeBlanc, William G.; Fleming, Lora E.; Lee, David J; Davila, Evelyn P.; Caban‐Martinez, Alberto J.; Dietz, Noella A.; McCollister, Kathryn E.; Bandiera, Frank C.; Clark, John D.

doi:10.3945/ajcn.2009.27684

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“…These findings show that when the participants were unaware of the nutrition label, obesity prevalence was significantly higher among men, those with older age, the married, with lower household income, and lower educational level participants. Consistent with the present study, participants with obesity were more likely to check food labels than those with normal weight [14,19]. However, the check and use scores of nutrition labels were not different based on weight status [13].…”

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“…These findings support previous results that obese subjects did not significantly utilized food label [11]. Overweight participants were highly aware and used nutrition label than normal participants [19]. Unlike the present findings, the association between obesity and food label use was significantly low among participants with obesity than those with normal weight [13,14].…”

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“…Therefore, the prevention and management strategy of obesity should be to reinforce consumers' perception and use of nutrition labeling of foods [8]. Previous studies have investigated the predictors, strategies, impacts, and effectiveness on nutrition label use [7,8,[11][12][13][14][15][16][17][18][19][20][21]. Studies on the factors associating nutrition labeling and obesity are limited.…”

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Relationship between awareness and use of nutrition labels and obesity

Kim¹

2018

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Purpose: This study aimed to identify the association between awareness and use of nutrition labels and obesity among Koreans. Materials and methods: A total of 16,911 participants aged ≥ 19 y (7,308 men and 9,603 women) were recruited. Data were extracted from the 6 th Korea National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (2014)(2015)(2016) Conclusion: Awareness and use of nutrition labels were significantly associated with obesity prevalence. These findings imply that education, dissemination, and publicity on understandable and useable nutrition labels are needed for food consumers, particularly to control obesity.

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Relationship between awareness and use of nutrition labels and obesity

Kim¹

2018

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“…Studies have also found that people with unhealthy diets are less likely (than those with healthier diets) to be influenced by food labels when making decisions about which food products they will purchase (5)(6)(7)(8) . Consumers who use food labels and nutrition information on food packaging are more likely to be highly educated, nutritionally knowledgeable (9)(10)(11)(12) , female, older, with a healthy weight and/or weight conscious (13)(14)(15) , diagnosed with a chronic disease (12,(14)(15)(16) , acknowledge the diet-disease relationship, have accurate self-perception of body weight and live in urban areas (11) . A major challenge of promoting use of nutrition labels and claims is ensuring that consumers understand the label and that it does, indeed, assist them in making appropriate food choices (17) .…”

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Characteristics of consumers using ‘better for you’ front-of-pack food labelling schemes – an example from the Australian Heart Foundation Tick

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2012

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Objective: The Heart Foundation Tick aims to help consumers make healthier food choices and overcome confusion in understanding food labels. Little is known about what factors differentiate frequent from infrequent users and the effectiveness of this scheme in helping Australians make healthier food choices. Design: A cross-sectional survey was used to explore use of the Tick and associations with a range of individual characteristics. Setting: A national panel of Australians, living in each state and territory, completed an online survey (n 1446). Subjects: Adult men (41 %) and women participated in the study. Results: Most trusted the Heart Foundation (79 %), and used the Tick at least occasionally (19 % regularly, 21 % often, 35 % occasionally, 24 % never). A majority was classified as overweight/obese (60 %), 3?5 % were diagnosed with CHD, 5?2 % with diabetes and 23 % with hypertension. Many did not meet recommendations for the consumption of red meat (30 %), processed meat (23 %), vegetables (78 %), fruit (43 %) and fast foods (47 %). Female frequent users tended to have hypertension, be married/de facto, older than 45 years, rural dwellers, and limit their intake of fast foods. Male frequent users tended to have hypertension, meet recommendations for fruit, vegetables and processed meats, but not have a tertiary education. Conclusions: The Heart Foundation Tick is a highly trusted, highly recognizable food labelling scheme and helpful to consumers who are motivated to make healthier food choices. More inter-sector collaboration is required to incorporate these schemes into public health campaigns to help consumers make healthier food choices.

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“…Nutrition labels were instituted to assist the population in making healthier dietary choices that would ultimately have a positive effect on public health [3]. Various nutrition-education campaigns have been implemented by public health organizations to increase knowledge about healthy food choices with the aim of facilitating the adoption of better dietary practices.…”

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Association between Awareness of Nutrition Labels and Menstrual Cycle Irregularity in Korean Women: The Fifth Korea National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (2010~2012)

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This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution NoDerivs License. (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nd/4.0)If the original work is properly cited and retained without any modification or reproduction, it can be used and re-distributed in any format and medium. Purpose: The aim of this study was to identify the relationship between awareness of nutrition labeling and menstrual cycle irregularity in women from a nationally representative sample of the Korean population. Methods: A cross-sectional analysis was performed using hierarchical multivariable logistic regression analysis models. A total of 4,324 women aged 19~54 years from the 2010~2012 Korean National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey participated in the study. The participants were classified into three groups based on self-report responses to a questionnaire about their awareness of nutrition labels: Reading, Not-Reading, and Not-Knowing Groups. Results: The Reading, Not-Reading, and Not-Knowing Groups comprised 46.4%, 44.9%, and 8.7% of the participants, respectively, and 53.6% of the participants had never used nutrition labels. In the Not-Knowing Group, irregular menstrual cycles for more than 3 months were significantly more common than women with irregular menstrual cycles for up to 3 months and women with regular menstrual cycles. Women in the Not-Knowing Group were more likely to exhibit menstrual cycle irregularity (adjusted odds ratio: 1.63, 95% confidence interval: 1.10~2.41) compared to women in the Reading Group after adjusting for age, body mass index, smoking status, alcohol intake, exercise regularity, stress, depression, suicidal ideation, metabolic syndrome, age at menarche, parity, and use of oral contraceptives. Conclusion: No awareness of nutrition labeling appears to be associated with a higher prevalence of menstrual cycle irregularity in a nationally representative group of Korean women.

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Food label use and awareness of nutritional information and recommendations among persons with chronic disease

Cited by 86 publications

References 18 publications

Relationship between awareness and use of nutrition labels and obesity

Relationship between awareness and use of nutrition labels and obesity

Characteristics of consumers using ‘better for you’ front-of-pack food labelling schemes – an example from the Australian Heart Foundation Tick

Association between Awareness of Nutrition Labels and Menstrual Cycle Irregularity in Korean Women: The Fifth Korea National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (2010~2012)

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