A neurobehavioral study on the efficacy of price interventions in promoting healthy food choices among low socioeconomic families.

ABSTRACT: Given the healthcare costs associated with obesity (especially in childhood), governments have tried several fiscal and policy interventions such as lowering tax and giving rebates to encourage parents to choose healthier food for their family. The efficacy of such fiscal policies is currently being debated. Here we address this issue by investigating how behavioral and brain-based responses in parents with low socioeconomic status change when rebates and lower taxes are offered on healthy food items. We performed behavioral and brain-based experiments, with the latter employing electroencephalography (EEG) acquired from parents while they shop in a simulated shopping market as well as follow up functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) in the more restricted scanner environment. Behavi

SUBMITTER: Banerjee T 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7508865 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature