{"id":4963,"date":"2023-03-27T17:07:07","date_gmt":"2023-03-27T15:07:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.jphres.org\/?p=4963"},"modified":"2023-04-02T14:14:47","modified_gmt":"2023-04-02T12:14:47","slug":"are-food-labels-effective-as-a-means-of-health-prevention","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.jphres.us.com\/index.php\/jphres\/article\/view\/768\/","title":{"rendered":"Are food labels effective as a means of health prevention?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"item doi\"><span class=\"value\"><a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.4081\/jphr.2016.768\">https:\/\/doi.org\/10.4081\/jphr.2016.768<\/a><\/span><\/div>\n<ul class=\"item authors\">\n<li><span class=\"name\"><strong>Gaia Claudia Viviana Viola<\/strong><br \/>\n<span class=\"affiliation\">Department of Medical and Surgical Specialties, Radiological Sciences and Public Health, University of Brescia, Italy.<\/span><\/span><\/li>\n<li><span class=\"name\"><strong>Francesca Bianchi<\/strong><br \/>\n<\/span><span class=\"affiliation\">Department of Medical and Surgical Specialties, Radiological Sciences and Public Health, University of Brescia, Italy.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span class=\"name\"><strong>Elia Croce<\/strong><br \/>\n<\/span><span class=\"affiliation\">Department of Medical and Surgical Specialties, Radiological Sciences and Public Health, University of Brescia, Italy.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span class=\"name\"><strong>Elisabetta Ceretti<\/strong><br \/>\n<\/span><span class=\"affiliation\">Department of Medical and Surgical Specialties, Radiological Sciences and Public Health, University of Brescia, Italy.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<div class=\"item abstract\">\n<h3 class=\"label\">ABSTRACT<\/h3>\n<p>Chronic diseases related to unbalanced and unhealthy eating habits have definitely become one of the major issues of modern age, not only in western countries but also in those ones where rapid economic growth has increased global prosperity levels. In order to avoid medical systems to collapse under excessive costs, International and Public Organizations strongly support health policies that aim to make people shift towards wholesome dietary patterns, also encouraging the use of food-labels to choose healthier products. To evaluate the consumers\u2019 knowledge and perception about food-labels a brief questionnaire was developed and shared on Facebook between January-March 2016. Most of the participants were young adults with higher education. They declared to do their shopping at least once a week, reading the foodlabels quite often. Despite owing limited knowledge in basic nutrition principles and food-labelling they were generally able to recognize healthier products looking over their nutritional fact tables. Anyway, on average, what they care the most about the products they purchase is the global quality level rather than the nutritional values. In order to induce the whole population to use food label as an effective self-protection tool, more efforts should be done to improve their knowledge on nutrition fundamentals and basics about food labelling, because that would make them able to take safer and more conscious choices as regards their own health.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>https:\/\/doi.org\/10.4081\/jphr.2016.768 Gaia Claudia Viviana Viola Department of Medical and Surgical Specialties, Radiological Sciences and Public Health, University of Brescia, Italy. Francesca Bianchi Department of Medical and Surgical Specialties, Radiological Sciences and Public Health, University of Brescia, Italy. Elia Croce Department of Medical and Surgical Specialties, Radiological Sciences and Public Health, University of Brescia, Italy. Elisabetta &#8230; <a title=\"Are food labels effective as a means of health prevention?\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.jphres.us.com\/index.php\/jphres\/article\/view\/768\/\" aria-label=\"More on Are food labels effective as a means of health prevention?\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-4963","page","type-page","status-publish"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.2 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Are food labels effective as a means of health prevention? - Journal of Public Health Research<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.jphres.us.com\/index.php\/jphres\/article\/view\/768\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Are food labels effective as a means of health prevention? - Journal of Public Health Research\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.4081\/jphr.2016.768 Gaia Claudia Viviana Viola Department of Medical and Surgical Specialties, Radiological Sciences and Public Health, University of Brescia, Italy. 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