BackgroundWorldwide, the public health community has recognized the growing problem of childhood obesity. But, unlike tobacco control policy, there is little evidence about what public policies would work to substantially reduce childhood obesity. Public health leaders currently tend to support traditional "command and control" schemes that order private enterprises and governments to stop or start doing specific things that, is it hoped, will yield lower childhood obesity rates. These include measures such as 1) taking sweetened beverages out of schools, 2) posting calorie counts on fast-food menu boards, 3) labeling foods with a "red light" if they contain high levels of fat or sugar, 4) limiting the density of fast food restaurants in an...
The objective of this research is to determine the impact of the food industry on child- hood obesit...
Background: There is evidence suggesting that food advertising causes childhood obesity. The strengt...
Background: There is evidence suggesting that food advertising causes childhood obesity. The strengt...
Worldwide, the public health community has recognized the growing problem of childhood obesity. But,...
That childhood obesity is an alarming public health problem is clear and widely appreciated. What is...
Childhood obesity prevalence rates have reached epidemic levels in the United States having nearly t...
Abstract The global hegemony of the United States in the production and marketing of food, while a m...
According to the Harvard T. H. Chan School of Public Health, the American childhood obesity rate has...
Childhood obesity has become a public health crisis requiring action from government and food market...
The obesity epidemic cannot be reversed without substantial improvements in the food marketing envir...
Childhood obesity is a problem of increasing severity in the United States. According to the Centers...
Around the world, approximately 170 million children under the age of 18 are estimated to be overwei...
Childhood overweight and physical inactivity have reached epidemic levels in the United States, and ...
The prevalence of obesity in the United States is at the highest it has ever been. Adolescent and ad...
ii Strong scientific evidence shows that the marketing of unhealthy foods to children is a significa...
The objective of this research is to determine the impact of the food industry on child- hood obesit...
Background: There is evidence suggesting that food advertising causes childhood obesity. The strengt...
Background: There is evidence suggesting that food advertising causes childhood obesity. The strengt...
Worldwide, the public health community has recognized the growing problem of childhood obesity. But,...
That childhood obesity is an alarming public health problem is clear and widely appreciated. What is...
Childhood obesity prevalence rates have reached epidemic levels in the United States having nearly t...
Abstract The global hegemony of the United States in the production and marketing of food, while a m...
According to the Harvard T. H. Chan School of Public Health, the American childhood obesity rate has...
Childhood obesity has become a public health crisis requiring action from government and food market...
The obesity epidemic cannot be reversed without substantial improvements in the food marketing envir...
Childhood obesity is a problem of increasing severity in the United States. According to the Centers...
Around the world, approximately 170 million children under the age of 18 are estimated to be overwei...
Childhood overweight and physical inactivity have reached epidemic levels in the United States, and ...
The prevalence of obesity in the United States is at the highest it has ever been. Adolescent and ad...
ii Strong scientific evidence shows that the marketing of unhealthy foods to children is a significa...
The objective of this research is to determine the impact of the food industry on child- hood obesit...
Background: There is evidence suggesting that food advertising causes childhood obesity. The strengt...
Background: There is evidence suggesting that food advertising causes childhood obesity. The strengt...