Price discounts significantly enhance fruit and vegetable purchases when combined with nutrition education: A randomized controlled supermarket trial

American Journal of Clinical Nutrition

Volumn 97, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 886-895

  Waterlander, Wilma E ^a,d   De Boer, Michiel R ^a,b   Schuit, Albertine J ^a,c   Seidell, Jacob C ^a   Steenhuis, Ingrid H M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

^c NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR PUBLIC HEALTH AND THE ENVIRONMENT   (Netherlands)

^d Faculty of Medical and Health Sciences School of Population Health   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; COST UTILITY ANALYSIS; FOOD INTAKE; FRUIT; HUMAN; INTERVENTION STUDY; NUTRITION EDUCATION; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; STRATEGIC PLANNING; VEGETABLE;

ADULT; COMMERCE; DIET; FAMILY CHARACTERISTICS; FEMALE; FRUIT; HEALTH EDUCATION; HEALTH PROMOTION; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NETHERLANDS; NUTRITION POLICY; VEGETABLES;

EID: 84875844526     PISSN: 00029165     EISSN: 19383207     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3945/ajcn.112.041632     Document Type: Article

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