Eating better for less: a national discount program for healthy food purchases in South Africa

To examine whether reducing prices for healthy food purchases leads to changes in self-reported measures of food consumption and weight status. Repeated surveys of about 350,000 HealthyFood participants and nonparticipants. Program participation is associated with more consumption of fruits/vegetabl...

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Published inAmerican journal of health behavior Vol. 37; no. 1; p. 56
Main Authors An, Ruopeng, Patel, Deepak, Segal, Darren, Sturm, Roland
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published England 01.01.2013
Subjects
Adult
Body Weight
Commerce - economics
Eating - psychology
Female
Food - economics
Health Behavior
Health Surveys - methods
Health Surveys - statistics & numerical data
Humans
Male
Motivation
South Africa
South Africa
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Summary:To examine whether reducing prices for healthy food purchases leads to changes in self-reported measures of food consumption and weight status. Repeated surveys of about 350,000 HealthyFood participants and nonparticipants. Program participation is associated with more consumption of fruits/vegetables and whole-grain foods and less consumption of high sugar/salt foods, fried foods, processed meats, and fast food. There is no strong evidence that participation reduces obesity. A substantial price intervention might be effective in improving diets.
ISSN:1945-7359
DOI:10.5993/AJHB.37.1.6