Profits and pandemics: prevention of harmful effects of tobacco, alcohol, and ultra-processed food and drink industries

R Moodie, D Stuckler, C Monteiro, N Sheron, B Neal… - The lancet, 2013 - thelancet.com
The 2011 UN high-level meeting on non-communicable diseases (NCDs) called for
multisectoral action including with the private sector and industry. However, through the sale …

Big food, food systems, and global health

D Stuckler, M Nestle - PLoS medicine, 2012 - journals.plos.org
In an article that forms part of the PLoS Medicine series on Big Food, guest editors David
Stuckler and Marion Nestle lay out why more examination of the food industry is necessary …

[HTML][HTML] Why the Great Food Transformation may not happen–A deep-dive into our food systems' political economy, controversies and politics of evidence

C Béné - World Development, 2022 - Elsevier
This paper explores the conditions under which the changes leading to the Great
Transformation of food systems called upon by a growing number of international experts …

The global obesity pandemic: shaped by global drivers and local environments

BA Swinburn, G Sacks, KD Hall, K McPherson… - The lancet, 2011 - thelancet.com
The simultaneous increases in obesity in almost all countries seem to be driven mainly by
changes in the global food system, which is producing more processed, affordable, and …

Ultra-processed food products and obesity in Brazilian households (2008–2009)

DS Canella, RB Levy, APB Martins, RM Claro… - PloS one, 2014 - journals.plos.org
Background Production and consumption of industrially processed food and drink products
have risen in parallel with the global increase in overweight and obesity and related chronic …

Does food marketing need to make us fat? A review and solutions

P Chandon, B Wansink - Nutrition reviews, 2012 - academic.oup.com
Food marketing is often singled out as the leading cause of the obesity epidemic. The
present review examines current food marketing practices to determine how exactly they …

A proposed approach to systematically identify and monitor the corporate political activity of the food industry with respect to public health using publicly available …

M Mialon, B Swinburn, G Sacks - Obesity reviews, 2015 - Wiley Online Library
Unhealthy diets represent one of the major risk factors for non‐communicable diseases.
There is currently a risk that the political influence of the food industry results in public health …

Nutrition, agriculture and the global food system in low and middle income countries

BM Popkin - Food policy, 2014 - Elsevier
The entire food value chain and diet of low and middle income countries (LMICs) are rapidly
shifting. Many of the issues addressed by the nutrition community ignore some of the major …

Prevention of overweight and obesity: how effective is the current public health approach

RSM Chan, J Woo - International journal of environmental research and …, 2010 - mdpi.com
Obesity is a public health problem that has become epidemic worldwide. Substantial
literature has emerged to show that overweight and obesity are major causes of co …

The habitual nature of food purchases at the supermarket: Implications for policy making

L Machín, MR Curutchet, V Gugliucci, A Vitola… - Appetite, 2020 - Elsevier
Supermarkets have become the most important provider of food products worldwide.
However, empirical evidence about how consumers make their food purchase decisions in …