Healthy food choices are happy food choices: Evidence from a real life sample using smartphone based assessments

Wahl, Deborah R.; Villinger, Karoline; König, Laura M; Ziesemer, Katrin; Schupp, Harald T.; Renner, Britta

doi:10.1038/s41598-017-17262-9

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“…By contrast, the consumption of high-fat foods resulted in impaired wellbeing, contrasting with the belief that high-caloric foods taste better, make us happy, and alleviate a negative mood [57]. In the same year, Wahl and colleagues added to this topic showing that healthy food choices—such as eating fruits and vegetables—were associated with eating happiness [61].…”

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A Systematic Review of Ecological Momentary Assessment of Diet: Implications and Perspectives for Nutritional Epidemiology

Maugeri

Barchitta

2019

Nutrients

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The ecological momentary assessment (EMA) of eating behaviors represents an innovative, detailed and valid approach to capture the complexity of food intake and to overcome limitations of traditional dietary assessment methods. Moreover, EMA studies might generate a large variety of data (e.g., dietary, behavioral, physical, sociopsychological, and contextual information), thereby enabling to examine concurrent exposures and events. Due to the increasing number of studies in this field of research, here we systematically reviewed EMA methods for the assessment of dietary intake in epidemiological studies, and discussed implications and perspectives for future research. Our study summarized several protocols and platforms that may be applied to assess diet in terms of eating frequency, choices, and habits. Nearly 38% of studies used an event-contingent strategy by asking participants to report foods and beverages consumed in real-time at each eating occasion. Instead, approximately 55% of studies used a signal-contingent prompting approach that notified the participants to record their dietary consumption. The remaining studies used a combination of event- and signal-contingent protocols to compare their accuracy or to improve the assessment of dietary data. Although both approaches might improve the accuracy and ecological validity of dietary assessment—also reducing the burden for participants—some limitations should nevertheless be considered. Despite these limitations, our systematic review pointed out that EMA can be applied in various fields of nutritional epidemiology, from the identification of determinants of dietary habits in healthy people to the management of patients with eating or metabolic disorders. However, more efforts should be encouraged to improve the validity and the reliability of EMA and to provide further technological innovations for public health research and interventions.

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A Systematic Review of Ecological Momentary Assessment of Diet: Implications and Perspectives for Nutritional Epidemiology

Maugeri

Barchitta

2019

Nutrients

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“…The BCT taxonomy, while already complex with 16 different theory‐based BCT clusters and 93 single BCTs, is mainly focussing on static concepts. However, since mobile interventions distinguish themselves by being interactive, adaptive, time‐sensitive, and intraindividually dynamic, more dynamic concepts including the timing of information provision, feedback, and reminders or tailoring tasks and goals to individual progress and capacities as specified in persuasive technology might be essential ingredients of effective focussed mobile interventions . Hence, while mobile phones are a promising platform for accessible and cost‐effective interventions, further development and innovation are required to ensure that the medium's possibilities are leveraged to ensure efficacious changes …”

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The effectiveness of app‐based mobile interventions on nutrition behaviours and nutrition‐related health outcomes: A systematic review and meta‐analysis

et al. 2019

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SummaryA systematic review and meta‐analysis were conducted to assess the effectiveness of app‐based mobile interventions for improving nutrition behaviours and nutrition‐related health outcomes, including obesity indices (eg, body mass index [BMI]) and clinical parameters (eg, blood lipids). Seven databases were searched for studies published between 2006 and 2017. Forty‐one of 10 132 identified records were included, comprising 6348 participants and 373 outcomes with sample sizes ranging from 10 to 833, including 27 randomized controlled trials (RCTs). A beneficial effect of app‐based mobile interventions was identified for improving nutrition behaviours (g = 0.19; CI, 0.06‐0.32, P = .004) and nutrition‐related health outcomes (g = 0.23; CI, 0.11‐0.36, P < .001), including positive effects on obesity indices (g = 0.30; CI, 0.15‐0.45, P < .001), blood pressure (g = 0.21; CI, 0.01‐0.42, P = .043), and blood lipids (g = 0.15; CI, 0.03‐0.28, P = .018). Most interventions were composed of four behaviour change technique (BCT) clusters, namely, “goals/planning,” “feedback/monitoring,” “shaping knowledge,” and “social support.” Moderating effects including study design, type of app (commercial/research app), sample characteristics (clinical/non‐clinical sample), and intervention characteristics were not statistically significant. The inclusion of additional treatment components besides the app or the number or type of BCTs implemented did not moderate the observed effectiveness, which underscores the potential of app‐based mobile interventions for implementing effective and feasible interventions operating at scale for fighting the obesity epidemic in a broad spectrum of the population.

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“…Healthy food choices like fruits and vegetables contribute to people’s well‐being and relieve mental distress (Hong & Peltzer, ; Saba & Vassallo, ). Tasty food choices, particularly high‐fat and high‐sugar foods, make people happy but may also lead to obesity (Kemp, Bui, & Grier, ; Tan & Chow, ), and other health problems (Wahl et al, ). That is, food choice is about more than nutrition, and for this reason, it is currently a key focus of research in the field of well‐being (Mujcic & Oswald, ; Wahl et al, ).…”

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Relationship between types of food choice motives and well‐being among young and middle‐aged Chinese adults

Gong

Xie

et al. 2020

Int J Consumer Studies

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Food choice plays a vital role in people’s lives and well‐being, and this topic has received more research attention in recent years. The aims of the present research were to identify subgroups of participants who shared similar profiles of multiple motives for food choices, and examine differences across motive types on the well‐being of young and middle‐aged Chinese adults. Participants were 627 Chinese adults aged 18–58 years who completed questionnaire measures. The results of Latent Profile Analysis showed that based on the configurations among different motives for food choice, there were five profiles of food choice motives, corresponding to five types of Chinese adult consumers: unconcerned, mood oriented, weight control oriented, food enthusiast and health oriented. The food enthusiast consumers were more likely to include young adults with high‐income level and educational level, while the unconcerned consumers had a larger share of middle‐aged adults with low income. Results of ANOVA suggested that the types of food choice motives significantly predicted individuals’ well‐being. Specifically, the food enthusiast group had the highest level of well‐being, while the unconcerned group had the lowest level of well‐being. The other three groups had moderate levels of well‐being. The current study is the first to explore the potential influence of food choice motives on well‐being using a person‐centred approach, and the results have practical implications for public health authorities in developing effective interventions, for food companies in tailoring marketing campaigns and for individuals in optimizing food choices.

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Healthy food choices are happy food choices: Evidence from a real life sample using smartphone based assessments

Cited by 76 publications

References 36 publications

A Systematic Review of Ecological Momentary Assessment of Diet: Implications and Perspectives for Nutritional Epidemiology

A Systematic Review of Ecological Momentary Assessment of Diet: Implications and Perspectives for Nutritional Epidemiology

The effectiveness of app‐based mobile interventions on nutrition behaviours and nutrition‐related health outcomes: A systematic review and meta‐analysis

Relationship between types of food choice motives and well‐being among young and middle‐aged Chinese adults

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