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The impact of nutritional supplement intake on diet behavior and obesity outcomes
After decades-old efforts to nudge consumers towards healthier lifestyles through dietary guidelines, diet-related diseases are on the rise. In addition, a growing share of U.S. consumers proactively chooses nutritional supplements as an alternative preventative way of maintaining good health, a $25...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5633155/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28991921 http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0185258 |
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description | After decades-old efforts to nudge consumers towards healthier lifestyles through dietary guidelines, diet-related diseases are on the rise. In addition, a growing share of U.S. consumers proactively chooses nutritional supplements as an alternative preventative way of maintaining good health, a $25.5 billion industry in the United States. This paper investigates possible linkages between the economics of consumer supplement choices and the relationship to important dietary and health outcomes. We use National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (NHANES) data to estimate the impact of nutritional supplements intake on respondent’s body weight outcomes, controlling for diet quality.: The focus of this article is to determine whether nutritional supplements takers differ from non-takers with regard to their health outcomes when controlling for differences in diet quality, based on individual Healthy Eating Index (HEI-2010) score. The analysis applies treatment effects estimators that account for the selection bias and endogeneity of self-reported behavior and diet-health outcomes. The analysis demonstrates a negative association between supplement intake and BMI but no significant effect on an individual’s diet quality. Our findings suggest that individuals proactively invest into their health by taking nutritional supplements instead of improving diet quality through more nutritious food choices. Our results provide important contributions to the literature on a key food policy issue. Knowledge of the determinants of supplement demand in the context of strong diet-health trends should also be helpful to stakeholders in the U.S. produce sector in their competition over consumer market share. |
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spelling | pubmed-56331552017-10-30 The impact of nutritional supplement intake on diet behavior and obesity outcomes Anders, Sven Schroeter, Christiane PLoS One Research Article After decades-old efforts to nudge consumers towards healthier lifestyles through dietary guidelines, diet-related diseases are on the rise. In addition, a growing share of U.S. consumers proactively chooses nutritional supplements as an alternative preventative way of maintaining good health, a $25.5 billion industry in the United States. This paper investigates possible linkages between the economics of consumer supplement choices and the relationship to important dietary and health outcomes. We use National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (NHANES) data to estimate the impact of nutritional supplements intake on respondent’s body weight outcomes, controlling for diet quality.: The focus of this article is to determine whether nutritional supplements takers differ from non-takers with regard to their health outcomes when controlling for differences in diet quality, based on individual Healthy Eating Index (HEI-2010) score. The analysis applies treatment effects estimators that account for the selection bias and endogeneity of self-reported behavior and diet-health outcomes. The analysis demonstrates a negative association between supplement intake and BMI but no significant effect on an individual’s diet quality. Our findings suggest that individuals proactively invest into their health by taking nutritional supplements instead of improving diet quality through more nutritious food choices. Our results provide important contributions to the literature on a key food policy issue. Knowledge of the determinants of supplement demand in the context of strong diet-health trends should also be helpful to stakeholders in the U.S. produce sector in their competition over consumer market share. Public Library of Science 2017-10-09 /pmc/articles/PMC5633155/ /pubmed/28991921 http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0185258 Text en © 2017 Anders, Schroeter http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) , which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited. |
spellingShingle | Research Article Anders, Sven Schroeter, Christiane The impact of nutritional supplement intake on diet behavior and obesity outcomes |
title | The impact of nutritional supplement intake on diet behavior and obesity outcomes |
title_full | The impact of nutritional supplement intake on diet behavior and obesity outcomes |
title_fullStr | The impact of nutritional supplement intake on diet behavior and obesity outcomes |
title_full_unstemmed | The impact of nutritional supplement intake on diet behavior and obesity outcomes |
title_short | The impact of nutritional supplement intake on diet behavior and obesity outcomes |
title_sort | impact of nutritional supplement intake on diet behavior and obesity outcomes |
topic | Research Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5633155/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28991921 http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0185258 |
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