Habit Formation Effect of Food Consumption and Its Impact on Overweight and Obesity in Rural China
With the improvement of living standard,the problem of overweight and obesity a-mong Chinese rural residents has spread rapidly,which implies adverse impact on individual human capital accumulation and governance burden on social and economic development.The fun-damental problem of overweight and obesity lies in unreasonable structure of food consump-tion.Among factors affecting residents'food consumption,in addition to traditional factors such as income and price,residents'food consumption habits formed for a long time should not be ig-nored.Based on the data of China Health and Nutrition Survey(CHNS),this study sets up a link-age relationship of"price/income-food-calories-body mass index(BMI)",and empirically ana-lyzes the habit formation effect of food consumption in rural adults and its impact on overweight and obesity by using the Almost Ideal Demand System(AIDS)model with dynamic mechanism,and body weight formation model.The results show that the food consumption behavior of rural a-dults have significant habit formation effect,among them,the habit formation effect of edible oil,grain,and vegetable are stronger than other categories.The habit formation effect of food consump-tion strengthen the sensitivity of rural adults'food consumption demand to changes in income and food prices.The change of nutrition structure caused by the change of diet structure is the main factor leading to the overweight and obesity in rural residents,and the habit formation effect of food consumption aggravates the trend of overweight and obesity in rural adults under the background of economic growth.Therefore,it is necessary to strengthen the long-term publicity of healthy diet model with balanced nutrition,gradually guide rural residents to form scientific and healthy eating habits,and curb the spread of overweight and obesity in rural areas from the root through dietary intervention measures.
Chinese rural adultsFood consumptionHabit formation effectOverweight and o-besity
NETL
NSTL
万方数据
维普
