Consumer Awareness of Diet-Disease Relationships and Dietary Behavior: The Case of Dietary Fat

Daniel S. Putler and Elizabeth Frazao

Journal of Agricultural Economics Research, 1994, vol. 45, issue 01, 15

Abstract: We use FDA surveys on awareness of diet-disease relationships to estimate a probability model of awareness. We apply the model to respondents of USDA's 1985-88 food consumption surveys to estimate a predicted probability of awareness, an explanatory variable in the multivariate analysis of fat intake. Despite systematic changes in food behavior associated with diet-disease awareness, women with higher awareness probabilities showed no greater reduction in fat intake than others. Difficulties in making effective food substitutions may be due to insufficient knowledge about the relative fat content of different food groups. More research is needed to understand the complex link between diet-disease awareness and dietary practices.

Keywords: Food; Consumption/Nutrition/Food; Safety (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 1994
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DOI: 10.22004/ag.econ.137436

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