Nutrition information, health risks, time preference and demand for healthy diet

Adoption of Reduced Dietary Fat Intake In this study, it is impossible to derive a single index to represent the status of Canadian healthy eating in a similar fashion to the Healthy Eating Index constructed by the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) (Kennedy et al., 1999) due to the lack of data. [...] The Empirical Model The choice of the empirical model is largely dictated by the nature of the data. [...] The survey was designed to measure the health status of Canadians and to add to the existing body of knowledge about the determinants of health. [...] One of the central questions of the study to examine to what degree some individuals and organizations are trusted as sources of nutrition information and others are not. [...] Logistic regression is employed to model the occurrence of 14 participation in healthy eating, and count data process is used to model the distribution of the participation.