The Meaning of a “Diet”: A Sneak Peek into Hartman’s Upcoming Modern Approaches to Eating Report

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What’s the meaning of “diet” for consumers today? How do popular eating approaches like plant-based or low-carb fit into cultural views on diet? In our latest podcast, our analysts provide a preview of findings from our upcoming report, Modern Approaches to Eating 2022 (due for release June 30, 2022).

They highlight findings from the new report, which examines the overall landscape of eating approaches and specific diets today with a starting point of what diet means culturally to how consumers think about specific eating approaches today and how they implement them in their lives.

Learn how Modern Approaches to Eating 2022 unpacks the cultural underpinnings of diet and ways of eating in its examination of how these behaviors and beliefs actually play out in consumers' day-to-day lives. Topics discussed include:

• Historical cultural views on the term “diet”
• Consumer distinctions between diet and behavior changes
• Consumer definitions of diet in terms of restrictions
• Differences between the degree of attention or intention that consumers bring to their eating approaches

Interested to learn more about the new report? Available June 30, 2022, Modern Approaches to Eating 2022explores in-depth the spectrum of eating approaches (e.g., plant-based eating) that consumers pursue today, along with the attitudes, needs and goals that motivate them and the considerations and challenges they encounter along the way.

Download a copy of the Modern Approaches to Eating 2022 study overview and order form here.

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