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The real impact of healthier products on consumption and calorie intake

Objective

Several Western governments have declared obesity as one of today’s most urgent challenges. One of the remedies suggested to solve the obesity problem has been the development and stimulation of healthier products. Not surprisingly, companies have realized the opportunities, and healthier product versions have become big business. Apart from the low-fat varieties that are now present in almost every product category, also other functional health claims (e.g. extra vitamins) are frequently used. Common wisdom would suggest that the consumption of healthier product versions would indeed increase a consumer’s health. However, recent experimental research has shown that the effect of these healthier products may not be as straightforward as originally thought, to the extent that it may even lead to increased consumption and even calorie intake in certain circumstances.
I propose to study health claims in a real-life setting, and examine their effect on actual category consumption quantity and calorie intake both in the short and long term. I use a unique dataset consisting of real purchase data in many product categories for a large household panel, combined with product information such as the type of health claims used and the nutritional information. The large amount of cases will not only allow to generate generalizable knowledge on the effect of health claims on real consumption behavior, it will also allow to study the potential moderating impact of the type of health claim (low-fat versus functional), as well as consumer and category characteristics.

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FP7-PEOPLE-2010-RG
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MC-ERG - European Re-integration Grants (ERG)

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UNIVERSITEIT MAASTRICHT
EU contribution
€ 45 000,00
Address
MINDERBROEDERSBERG 4
6200 MD Maastricht
Netherlands

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Region
Zuid-Nederland Limburg (NL) Zuid-Limburg
Activity type
Higher or Secondary Education Establishments
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