Summary The Nutrition Transition model is presented with the nature and pace of change in
key stages varying by location and subpopulations. At present, all high‐income and many …

The global surges in obesity and nutrition-related non-communicable diseases (NCDs) have
created a need for decisive new food policy initiatives. A major concern has been the impact …

Chronic diseases represent a major challenge in world health. Metabolic syndrome is a
constellation of disturbances affecting several organs, and it has been proposed to be a liver …

Objective: Food environments may be contributing to the rapid increase in obesity occurring
in most Latin American (LA) countries. The present study reviews literature from LA that (i) …

Background In October 2019, Mexico approved a law to establish that nonalcoholic
beverages and packaged foods that exceed a threshold for added calories, sugars, fats …

Background Approximately two-thirds of Argentine adults are overweight or obese, and 11%
have diabetes. Over the last two decades, all population groups have increased their …

Background In 2010, sugar sweetened beverages (SSBs) were estimated to cause 12% of
all diabetes, cardiovascular disease (CVD) and obesity-related cancer deaths in Mexico …

BACKGROUND Adverse associations of low-and no-calorie sweetened beverages (LNCSB)
with cardiometabolic outcomes in observational studies may be explained by reverse …

Objective: To compare the degree of strictness and agreement of different nutrient profiling
models (NPM) used to identify which foods would be required to show front-of-package …

Background: High intake of added sugar is linked to weight gain and cardiometabolic risk. In
2018, the US National Salt and Sugar Reduction Initiative proposed government-supported …