Consumer objective and subjective knowledge about healthy foods: An approach to promote healthy lifestyle choices in South Africa.

ABSTRACT: Unhealthy food choices and consumption, coupled with sedentary lifestyles among consumers, intensify public health concerns regarding the quadruple disease burden, despite Primary Health Care (PHC) policy. However, the current relationship between consumer knowledge about healthy foods and following a healthy lifestyle needs to be explored. Our study, therefore, aimed to determine the association between consumers' subjective and objective knowledge about healthy foods and various healthy lifestyle choices. A cross-sectional survey was conducted among employed consumers (N = 157) from South African corporate settings. We used structural equation modelling (SEM) to determine associations between subjective and objective knowledge about healthy foods and healthy lifestyle choices. Our findin

SUBMITTER: van der Merwe D 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10810447 | biostudies-literature | 2024

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature