Embedding healthy eating: Nudging or toolbox?

Nutrition and Food Science

Volumn 43, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 330-338

  Schröder, Monika ^a   Lyon, Phil ^b  

^a QUEEN MARGARET UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b UMEÅ UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Behavioural toolbox; Diet; Food and drink; Food habits; Food products; Healthy eating; Nudging

Indexed keywords

EID: 84879728596     PISSN: 00346659     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/NFS-03-2012-0028     Document Type: Article

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