Written by leading international experts, this book explores one of the central difficulties faced by nutritionists today; how to improve people's health by getting them to change their dietary behaviour. It provides an overview of the current understanding of consumer food choice by exploring models of food choice, the motivations of consumers, biological, learning and societal influences on food choice, and food choices across the lifespan. It concludes by examining the barriers to dietary change and how nutritionists can best impact upon dietary behaviour.
Advanced students, researchers and practitioners in nutrition, dietetics and psychology.
Part 1: Models of food choice
A Conceptual Model of the Food Choice Process over the Life Course, J
Sobal, C A Bisogni, C M Devine and M Jastran, Cornell University, USA
The Integration of Biological, Social, Cultural, and Psychological
Influences on Food Choice, P Rozin, University of Pennsylvania, USA
Social Psychological Models of Food Choice, M Conner, University of
Leeds, UK and C J Armitage, University of Sheffield, UK
Part 2: Biological and learning influences on food choice
Biological Influences on Energy Intake, K Westerterp, Maastricht
University, The Netherlands
Food Neophobia in Humans, P Pliner and S-J Salvy, University of
Toronto at Mississauga, Canada
The Role of Learning in Development of Food Preference, M R Yeomans,
University of Sussex, UK
Mood, emotions and food choice, E L Gibson, Roehampton University, UK
Food Cravings and Addictions, S Higgs , University of Birmingham,
UK
Part 3: Societal influences on food choice
Marketing Parameters and their Influence on Consumer Food Choice, K G
Grunert, Aarhus School of Business, Denmark
The Role of Context in Food Choice, Food Acceptance and Food Consumption, H
L Meiselman, Natick Soldier Center, USA
The Impact of the Media on Food Choice, J Reilly, University of Glasgow,
UK
The Impact of Advertising on Food Choice: the Social Context of Advertising,
M Caraher, City University, UK and J Landon, National Heart Forum,
UK
Part 4: Food choices across the lifespan
Adolescents, Food Choice and Vegetarianism, K Trew, C Clark, G McCartney,
Queens University Belfast, Ireland, J Barnett, University of Surrey, UK and
O Muldoon, Queens University Belfast, Ireland
Intra-family Influences on Food Choice at Mid-life , J L Brown,
Pennsylvania State University, USA
Food Choices in Later Life, M Lumbers and
M Raats, University of Surrey, UK
Part 5: Changing dietary behaviour
The Impact of Optimistic Bias on Dietary Behaviour, V Scaife, S Miles,
University of East Anglia, UK and P Harris, University of Sheffield, UK
Implementation Intentions: Strategic Automatisation of Food Choice, T L
Webb, P Sheeran and C J Armitage, University of Sheffield, UK
The Use of the Stages of Change Model with Dietary Behaviours, R
Shepherd,
What is a Healthy Diet Community? D Bowen, Fred Hutchinson Cancer
Research Center, USA and T Hilliard
Eating Behaviour in Obesity, J Wardle, University College London, UK
