Nutrition Information and Household Dietary Fat Intake

An endogenous switching regression model is used to examine how meal planner health knowledge affects dietary fat intake. Ethnicity, income, meal planner age, being on a low-fat diet, and other health awareness behaviors had significant effects on health knowledge. After controlling for differences...

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Main Authors: Brian W. Gould, Huei Chin Lin
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Western Agricultural Economics Association 1994-12-01
Series:Journal of Agricultural and Resource Economics
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Online Access:https://ageconsearch.umn.edu/record/30748
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description An endogenous switching regression model is used to examine how meal planner health knowledge affects dietary fat intake. Ethnicity, income, meal planner age, being on a low-fat diet, and other health awareness behaviors had significant effects on health knowledge. After controlling for differences in household and meal planner characteristics, intake of total and saturated fat was found to depend on health knowledge status.
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spelling doaj.art-a493190ef3174f41b8ed81cedb3df08b2022-12-21T18:47:25ZengWestern Agricultural Economics AssociationJournal of Agricultural and Resource Economics1068-55022327-82851994-12-0119234936510.22004/ag.econ.3074830748Nutrition Information and Household Dietary Fat IntakeBrian W. GouldHuei Chin LinAn endogenous switching regression model is used to examine how meal planner health knowledge affects dietary fat intake. Ethnicity, income, meal planner age, being on a low-fat diet, and other health awareness behaviors had significant effects on health knowledge. After controlling for differences in household and meal planner characteristics, intake of total and saturated fat was found to depend on health knowledge status.https://ageconsearch.umn.edu/record/30748dietary fat intakehealth knowledgeswitching regression
spellingShingle Brian W. Gould
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Journal of Agricultural and Resource Economics
dietary fat intake
health knowledge
switching regression
title Nutrition Information and Household Dietary Fat Intake
title_full Nutrition Information and Household Dietary Fat Intake
title_fullStr Nutrition Information and Household Dietary Fat Intake
title_full_unstemmed Nutrition Information and Household Dietary Fat Intake
title_short Nutrition Information and Household Dietary Fat Intake
title_sort nutrition information and household dietary fat intake
topic dietary fat intake
health knowledge
switching regression
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