Trial reportBMC public health2014
The effects of food advertising and cognitive load on food choices.
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- Youth exposure to unhealthy digital food marketing in relation to race/ethnicity and income adequacy in Canada.BMC nutrition · 2025Article
- Explanation of factors affecting food choice among Iranian young adults (18 to 24 years old): a qualitative study.BMC public health · 2025Article
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- Tunneling, cognitive load and time orientation and their relations with dietary behavior of people experiencing financial scarcity - an AI-assisted scoping review elaborating on scarcity theory.The international journal of behavioral nutrition and physical activity · 2024Article
- Common mental disorders in Brazilian adolescents: association with school characteristics, consumption of ultra-processed foods and waist-to-height ratio.Cadernos de saude publica · 2024Article
- Exposure or pandemic effect: Export boom in instant noodles from South Korea during COVID-19.Food science & nutrition · 2023Article
- Food Choices after Cognitive Load: An Affective Computing Approach.Sensors (Basel, Switzerland) · 2023Article
- A value accumulation account of unhealthy food choices: testing the influence of outcome salience under varying time constraints.Cognitive research: principles and implications · 2023Article
- Diabetes self-management: a qualitative study on challenges and solutions from the perspective of South African patients and health care providers.Global health action · 2022Article
- Effects of food nutrition labels on the health awareness of school-age children.BMC public health · 2022Article
- Population exposure to alcohol and junk food advertising during the 2018 FIFA world cup: implications for public health.BMC public health · 2022Article
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Abstract
backgroundAdvertising has been implicated in the declining quality of the American diet, but much of the research has been conducted with children rather than adults. This study tested the effects of televised food advertising on adult food choice.
methodsParticipants (N = 351) were randomized into one of 4 experimental conditions: exposure to food advertising vs. exposure to non-food advertising, and within each of these groups, exposure to a task that was either cognitively demanding or not cognitively demanding. The number of unhealthy snacks chosen was subsequently measured, along with total calories of the snacks chosen.
resultsThose exposed to food advertising chose 28% more unhealthy snacks than those exposed to non-food-advertising (95% CI: 7% - 53%), with a total caloric value that was 65 kcal higher (95% CI: 10-121). The effect of advertising was not significant among those assigned to the low-cognitive-load group, but was large and significant among those assigned to the high-cognitive-load group: 43% more unhealthy snacks (95% CI: 11% - 85%) and 94 more total calories (95% CI: 19-169).
conclusionsTelevised food advertising has strong effects on individual food choice, and these effects are magnified when individuals are cognitively occupied by other tasks.
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