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      Healthy dining. Subtle diet reminders at the point of purchase increase low-calorie food choices among both chronic and current dieters.

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          There is a growing consensus that our food-rich living environment contributes to rising numbers of people with overweight and obesity. Low-cost, effective intervention tools are needed to facilitate healthy eating behavior, especially when eating away from home. Therefore, we present a field experiment in a restaurant that tested whether providing subtle environmental diet reminders increases low-calorie food choices among both chronic and current dieters. For half of the participants, the menu was supplemented with diet-related words, as reminders of healthy eating and dieting. We recorded customers' choices of low-calorie or high-calorie items from the menu, and we assessed chronic and current dieting. Consistent with our hypotheses, we found that diet reminders increased choices for low-calorie foods, among both chronic and current dieters. After a diet reminder, around half of dieters made a healthy menu choice. This study demonstrates the efficacy of providing subtle diet reminders as a low-cost practical intervention to increase low-calorie food choices among weight-concerned individuals, who are motivated to regulate their eating behavior but have been found to often fail in food-rich environments.

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          Appetite
          Appetite
          1095-8304
          0195-6663
          Feb 2013
          : 61
          : 1
          Affiliations
          [1 ] Utrecht University, Department of Psychology, Postbus 80140, 3508TC Utrecht, The Netherlands. E.K.Papies@uu.nl
          Article
          S0195-6663(12)00441-2
          10.1016/j.appet.2012.10.025
          23142564
          f843c2d0-e643-4389-b627-1d890f5f2b83
          Copyright © 2012 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
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