'All foods affect health': Understandings of functional foods and healthy eating among health-oriented Finns

Appetite

Volumn 48, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 384-393

  Niva, Mari ^a  

^a National Consumer Research Centre   (Finland)

Author keywords

Cholesterol lowering foods; Consumers; Functional foods; Healthy eating; Lay understandings

Indexed keywords

CHOLESTEROL;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CONSUMER; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; FEMALE; FINLAND; FOOD INTAKE; FUNCTIONAL FOOD; HEALTH BEHAVIOR; HEALTH FOOD; HEALTH PROMOTION; HUMAN; KNOWLEDGE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NORMAL HUMAN; RISK REDUCTION;

ADULT; AGED; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; CHOLESTEROL, DIETARY; CONSUMER SATISFACTION; FEMALE; FINLAND; FOCUS GROUPS; FOOD HABITS; HEALTH FOOD; HEALTH KNOWLEDGE, ATTITUDES, PRACTICE; HEALTH PROMOTION; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED;

EID: 33947170340     PISSN: 01956663     EISSN: 10958304     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.appet.2006.10.006     Document Type: Article

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