Vargas-Bustamante Arturo
Fielding School of Public Health, University of California Los Angeles.
Salud Publica Mex. 2013;55 Suppl 4:S515-22. doi: 10.21149/spm.v55s4.5157.
To analyze menu labeling perception and food choices/health behaviors in two Los Angeles public markets. Labels with food caloric content were displayed in the food court of one of these markets.
Bivarate means analyses compared the surveyed population by market and by nativity status. The main predictors of menu-labeling influence were identified in the sample from the market that displayed labels. A separate analysis investigated food choices/health behaviors among immigrant cohorts by time of US residence.
Reading labels when shopping was one of the main predictors associated with menu labeling influence. Longer-stayed immigrants were more likely to afford "balanced meals", but they were also more likely to eat in fast food restaurants and less likely to engage into moderate/intense physical activity.
While nativity was not a significant predictor of menu labeling influence on food choices, our findings suggest food choices/behaviors convergence among immigrant and US-born populations.
分析洛杉矶两个公共市场中对菜单标签的认知以及食物选择/健康行为。其中一个市场的美食广场展示了食物热量含量标签。
双变量均值分析按市场和出生状态对调查人群进行比较。在展示标签的市场样本中确定了菜单标签影响的主要预测因素。另一项分析按在美国的居住时间调查了移民群体中的食物选择/健康行为。
购物时阅读标签是与菜单标签影响相关的主要预测因素之一。居住时间较长的移民更有可能提供“均衡膳食”，但他们也更有可能在快餐店就餐，且进行适度/剧烈体育活动的可能性较小。
虽然出生状态不是菜单标签对食物选择影响的显著预测因素，但我们的研究结果表明移民和美国出生人群在食物选择/行为方面存在趋同。
