Abstract
This paper presents the theoretical framework on how healthy life styles and eating habits such as eating breakfast or taking supplements and tonic drinks daily, contribute to subjective health status. Using the original data, we estimate using the bivariate probit model of where eating habits and the subjective health status are likely to be correlated.
Estimation results show positive correlation between healthy eating habits and subjective health status, and negative correlation between taking supplements and tonic drinks and subjective health status.
Taking supplements and tonic drinks plays the role of complementary goods for a balanced diet. For medical demand, they are substitutional goods for circu-latory, musculoskeletal and skin diseases, and complementary goods for respiratory disease and injury.
