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Mapping Young Adults' Concerns and Attitudes toward Food-Related Sustainability Issues in Israel: Implications for Food Policy.

ABSTRACT: Identifying the concerns about and attitudes toward adopting a healthy, sustainable diet may facilitate the development of effective implementation policies targeted at changing an individual's dietary choices toward reducing the environmental burden of food systems. This cross-sectional online study was conducted in Israel among 348 adults aged 20-45 who responded to an advertisement posted on several social media platforms. Respondents received a link for the survey after signing informed consent forms. The questionnaire included three sections: concerns regarding food-related sustainability issues, willingness to act ("self"), and expectation that leaders would act upon these issues ("leaders"). Responses were recorded on a 1-4 Likert scale. Health-related issues-healthy food and drink, food prices, food safety, and the quality of health services-were scored the highest, both in the "self" and "leaders" sections. In all items, the expectation that leaders would act was higher than the willingness to act (composite mean ± SD: 3.04 ± 3.11 vs. 2.51 ± 2.47, respectively, p < 0.001). There were significant differences among dietary patterns in all three components. Mapping young adults' concerns about and attitudes toward food-related sustainability issues allows for the identification of leverages that can be further used as focus issues in messages and interventions such as communication, food labeling, and economic incentives.

SUBMITTER: Tepper S

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7603225 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature

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Mapping Young Adults' Concerns and Attitudes toward Food-Related Sustainability Issues in Israel: Implications for Food Policy.

Tepper Sigal S Kaufman-Shriqui Vered V Shahar Danit Rivka DR

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Identifying the concerns about and attitudes toward adopting a healthy, sustainable diet may facilitate the development of effective implementation policies targeted at changing an individual's dietary choices toward reducing the environmental burden of food systems. This cross-sectional online study was conducted in Israel among 348 adults aged 20-45 who responded to an advertisement posted on several social media platforms. Respondents received a link for the survey after signing informed cons ...[more]

PMID: 33086554

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Mapping Young Adults' Concerns and Attitudes toward Food-Related Sustainability Issues in Israel: Implications for Food Policy.

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