{"id":579,"date":"2014-02-14T17:26:35","date_gmt":"2014-02-14T22:26:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/?p=579"},"modified":"2014-04-02T11:55:40","modified_gmt":"2014-04-02T16:55:40","slug":"promoting-a-healthy-diet-at-the-check-out-line","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/promoting-a-healthy-diet-at-the-check-out-line\/","title":{"rendered":"Promoting a healthy diet at the check-out line <img src=\"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/canada_flag_icon_small.gif\">"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_581\" style=\"width: 510px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/6432072809_d82d69c83d.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-581\" class=\"size-full wp-image-581\" alt=\"(Credit: Jason Paris, flickr.com).\" src=\"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/6432072809_d82d69c83d.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" srcset=\"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/6432072809_d82d69c83d.jpg 500w, http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/6432072809_d82d69c83d-300x225.jpg 300w, http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/6432072809_d82d69c83d-400x300.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-581\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">(Credit: Jason Paris, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/94064020@N00\/6432072809\/in\/photolist-aNo4a4-kJ8XKn-8cQ1Gs-9Fnt5v-dSHg59-b6rxj6-8NLxuk-aTtA1k-afxJaV-agzaSt-fZWE6k-cYBGNA-bvFLMf-m41VRH-m42JkL-a4Vr33-baVARP-a4SzZK-biChbK-bj1Ck4-bj9Qyp-baVy9M-baVzPD-baVCpF-bb3eq8-8G1d3x-bjn94V-baYAxR-bjnqVX-7WsdN3-biCuDr-bjceMx-baWwFi-bb3a1z-biHLUM-biHPy8-bj1BvX-bj1BRX-biCeCi-biCgwM-biCgRx-biCg94-biCeXM-bja9Rp-bj9Ra2-biCfok-bjaasp-baYy1c-bjnqdv-bb3f8k-bb37K4\" target=\"_blank\">flickr.com<\/a>).<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Researchers have found a relationship between the median income and soft drink purchases in Montreal.<\/p>\n<p>Researchers used records from scanning equipment at grocery store checkout lines to track soft drink purchases in various Montreal neighbourhoods. They found that for every $10,000 decline in the local median income there was a five-fold increase in soft drink purchases.<\/p>\n<p>Tracking tools like those used by the researchers could help public health agencies design \u2018healthy eating\u2019 campaigns.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/onlinelibrary.wiley.com\/doi\/10.1111\/nyas.12332\/abstract\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Original research paper<\/span><\/a> first published in the\u00a0<em>Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences<\/em> on\u00a0<strong>February 14, 2014<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>Names and affiliations of selected<\/strong><\/span><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong> authors<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<h4><a href=\"http:\/\/people.mcgill.ca\/david.buckeridge\/\" target=\"_blank\">David Buckeridge<\/a>, Department of Epidemiology, Biostatistics and Occupational Health, McGill University<\/h4>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Researchers have found a relationship between the median income and soft drink purchases in Montreal. Researchers used records from scanning equipment at grocery store checkout lines to track soft drink purchases in various Montreal neighbourhoods. They found that for every $10,000 decline in the local median income there was a five-fold increase in soft drink [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":581,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[51,650,849],"class_list":["post-579","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-tip","tag-health","tag-nutrition","tag-quebec-en"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/6432072809_d82d69c83d.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4DqbN-9l","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/579","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=579"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/579\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":694,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/579\/revisions\/694"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/581"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=579"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=579"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=579"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}