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Background The functional foods constitute the important segment of the food market. Among factors that determine the intentions to eat functional foods, the psychological factors play very important roles. Motives, attitudes and personality are key factors. The relationships between socio-demographic characteristics, attitudes and willingness to purchase functional foods were not fully confirmed...
Background. The links between dietary patterns, the perception of one’s body weight and diet as well preparing meals are poorly recognised in the literature. In order to develop effective nutritional education and focused interventions, more of such information is thereby required to improve the nation’s health. Objective. To identify dietary patterns based on declared food consumption rates and subject...
Background. Bread is a basic food product in the diet of a majority of people. It is a good source of energy and it is also abundant in carbohydrates. Simultaneously, because it is consumed on a large scale by Polish people, it provides large amounts of salt and some additives like preservative and raising agents. The perception of the risk influences the choice of food and impacts eating behaviors...
Background. Dietary habits are formed at an early age and to a large extent they affect such nutritional behaviour in adulthood. Mothers in particular, influence family nutrition. In this respect, their knowledge, attitudes and behaviour about nutrition are responsible for the schooling of future generations. Many aspects of the link between food and health with nutritional behaviour in girls remain,...
The objective is to investigate the importance of perceived health risk for consumers’ preferences to purchase functional food without and with genetically modified technology. An interview-assisted questionnaire on attitudes towards the metabolic syndrome, potential agro-food technologies and genetics in nutrition was applied within a Polish representative sample of 1005 adults. There was a tendency...
The aim of the study was to describe the role of psychosocial determinants of using vitamin and mineral supplements among students. Through using the theory of planned behaviour, a more detailed approach to assess the psychosocial factors influencing dietary supplement use among students was created. Attitude toward behaviour was the statistically significant factor influencing both intention and...
The objective of the study was to evaluate the frequency of eating of dairy products and the daily intake of these products in the population of 449 persons aged 13-15, representing rural and urban areas. The frequency of eating and the average daily intake of milk and its products were insufficient. The girls and the participants from the rural area consumed dairy products more seldom and in lower...
The aim of the study was to know the women's opinions on the press as a source of the nutritional information as well as to define the women's behaviours in this area and their determinants, which were included in the constructed theoretic model. The frequency of using women's press, both weekly and monthly publications, was to a great degree influenced by the attitude towards this source. The expectations...
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