...Céline Gallen; Amélie Clauzel; Nathalie Guichard; Gaëlle Pantin-Sohier Purpose Our research aims to understand adolescents’ perceptions of alternative food such as insects in Western countries. Objectives are to identify (1) a “green gap” between their favorable attitudes toward adopting...

... group discussions and an open-ended survey. Findings An inductive reflexive thematic analysis indicated that the SNA intervention was an effective and engaging means of delivering normative feedback to younger adolescents. The use of a paper-and-pens creative poster-making activity, where students...

...Femke Damen; Ruud Verkerk; Bea Steenbekkers Purpose Adolescence is a period in which autonomy grows and where children develop into independent and active consumers and a period in which their food choices are also becoming more autonomous. Snacking is known to increase during the period...

... diseases and arthritis. Therefore, this study aims to compare the ready-to-drink SSB (RTD-SSB) consumption frequency, choice and sugar intake across gender and body weight status. Design/methodology/approach This cross-sectional study involved 126 adolescents from two primary schools in Shah Alam...

...Yunhwa Kim Purpose The purpose of this paper is to determine the function of adulterated food management (AFM) in the behavioural intentions of adolescents on food safety concerns. Design/methodology/approach The methodology is exploratory in nature and uses analysis of variance and regression...

... to describe the sample. The historically rapid rise in overweight and obesity levels among adolescents in the past decades is a serious and pressing public health threat. Worldwide, an estimated 42 mchildren, including adolescents, is overweight. Beyond emotional and physical consequences, unhealthy...

...Elisabeth Lind Melbye; Merete Hagen Helland Purpose The purpose of this paper is to explore associations between food-related self-control, intentions, descriptive peer norms, parents’ healthy eating guidance and adolescents’ consumption of sugar-sweetened beverages (SSB) in a school lunch setting...

...Neha Rathi; Lynn Riddell; Anthony Worsley Purpose The rising prevalence of obesity among Indian adolescents has underscored the need to develop effective strategies to reduce this epidemic. The purpose of this paper is to assess the patterns of snacking, meal consumption and fast food consumption...

.... Practical implications HCS teaching needs to get higher credibility among students as a counterweight against other sources. Social implications Educated consumers could influence their health. Originality/value Limited research has been performed on food safety knowledge among adolescents...

... (18.3 per cent) supported the restriction of fried foods in school canteens. Practical implications These findings underscore the need for the design and implementation of healthy school canteen policies to foster healthy eating habits among Indian adolescents. Originality/value...

...Jenny Rendahl; Peter Korp; Marianne Pipping Ekström; Christina Berg Purpose The authors used role-playing with subsequent focus group interviews in order to explore how adolescents negotiate conflicting food messages they encounter in their everyday lives. The purpose of this paper is to describe...

...Stefan Wahlen; Hilje van der Horst; Roosje Pothoff Purpose Adolescents are at a stage in their life course in which they increasingly become choosers, buyers and preparers of food. Hence, they develop and employ required competences. Current food-related competences of adolescents are shaped...

... are important contributors to foodborne disease transmission. Evidence suggests that while adolescents may share many of the same risks for foodborne infection as do adults, there may be an additional risk associated with decreased age and experience which creates additional risk as they are at an age at which...

... Group Publishing Limited 2015 Adolescents Experiential learning Cooking skills Community cooking interventions Home economics Although three quarters (73%) of participants agreed the course was the right length, many said they would like to have more than six (Health Promotion Agency...

...Tino Bech-Larsen; Laura Kazbare Purpose – Although adolescents and older adults are often targets for nutritional change interventions, little has been done to explore how people in these transitional life phases perceive the matter themselves. The aim of this paper is to explore and compare...

...Jessica Rapley; Neil S. Coulson Purpose The aim of this study was to apply key theoretical constructs from the Transtheoretical Model to daily consumption of at least five portions of fruit and vegetables among adolescent females. Design/methodology/approach A self‐report questionnaire...