Open AccessIs greater variety of chocolates and confectionery in supermarkets associated with more consumption?
Author(s) -
Thornton Lukar E.,
Cameron Adrian J.,
Crawford David A.,
McNaughton Sarah A.,
Ball Kylie
Publication year - 2011
Publication title -
australian and new zealand journal of public health
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.946
H-Index - 76
eISSN - 1753-6405
pISSN - 1326-0200
DOI - 10.1111/j.1753-6405.2011.00706.x
Subject(s) - consumption (sociology) , variety (cybernetics) , business , food science , advertising , environmental health , medicine , art , chemistry , computer science , aesthetics , artificial intelligence
). We collected information from women about the consumption of chocolate and confectionery, and audited supermarkets within the sampled suburbs to calculate the number of different varieties of these items stocked. Multilevel analysis was used to determine whether the variety of these snack food items in local neighbourhood supermarkets was associated with women’s confectionery and chocolate consumption. Our findings showed that the majority of women ate either chocolate (75%) or confectionery (82%) once a week or less; a small percentage of participants ate chocolates (5%) or confectionery (3%) on a daily basis. However, multilevel multinomial models