Sociocultural influences on food choices and implications for sustainable healthy diets

Exploring the influence of social capital on adherence to the Mediterranean diet can help shape interventions to encourage healthier eating habits among Iranian adults. A 168-item semi-quantitative food frequency questionnaire was used in this cross-sectional study by Norouziasl & Shab-Bidar (2024) to evaluate dietary consumption. The Mediterranean diet score (MDS), which ranges from 0 to […]

Eating in response to stress can become a habit with long-term effects, such as weight gain, but little research has focused on ways to break this cycle. Park et al. (2024) investigated whether daily social resources might serve as protective factors against stress-induced eating and subsequent weight gain. In Study 1 (N = 1,264), the […]