Abstract Purpose of Review To provide an update on current obesity prevalence trends and
summarize the available evidence suggesting a possible plateau or stabilization in obesity …

Prevention of obesity requires policies that work. In this Series paper, we propose a new
way to understand how food policies could be made to work more effectively for obesity …

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 …

In most countries, people who have a low socioeconomic status and those who live in poor
or marginalised communities have a higher risk of dying from non-communicable diseases …

Hintergrund Häufiger Konsum von übermäßigen Mengen an Süßgetränken ist ein
Risikofaktor für Adipositas (starkes Übergewicht), Diabetes mellitus Typ 2, Herz‐Kreislauf …

Investigations of the contribution of food costs to socioeconomic inequalities in diet quality
may have been limited by the use of estimated (vs. actual) food expenditures, not accounting …

This paper reviews the economic research on obesity, covering topics such as the
measurement of, and trends in, obesity, the economic causes of obesity (eg the monetary …

There has been significant growth in political, public, media, and academic interest in taxes
and subsidies to encourage healthy food consumption over the past 3 years. The present …

Nutrition disparities and the global burden of malnutrition Page 1 the bmj | BMJ 2018;361:k2252
| doi: 10.1136/bmj.k2252 1 Science and PoliticS of nutrition Nutrition disparities and the global …

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 …