Translating the dietary knowledge among individuals into healthy behavior remains a challenging task. This study … examines the causal relationship between dietary knowledge and behavior by including self-efficacy in the models. A series of …-efficacy mediates effects of dietary knowledge and social influences on dietary behavior. Self-efficacy also accounted for variance in …

This paper demonstrates that dietary knowledge can influence nutrient intake differently depending on whether expected … food availability is increasing or decreasing. Using data from China, we find that overall dietary knowledge has larger and …, the effect of dietary knowledge on nutrient intake might have been underestimated in previous studies. We discuss the …