Background and Purpose: Population-wide reductions in cardiovascular disease incidence
and mortality have not been shared equally by African Americans. The burden of …

Despite isolated areas of improvement, no country to date has reversed its obesity epidemic.
Governments, together with a broad range of stakeholders, need to act urgently to decrease …

Background The public health community has become increasingly critical of the role that
powerful corporations play in driving unhealthy diets, one of the leading contributors to the …

CONTEXT: In-store food marketing can influence food-purchasing behaviors and warrants
increased attention given the dramatic rise in obesity. Descriptive and experimental studies …

Research into young people and healthy eating has focussed on identifying the 'barriers' to
healthy eating and on developing interventions to address them. However, it has tended to …

Marketing practices that promote calorie‐dense, nutrient‐poor foods directly to children and
adolescents present significant public health risk. Worldwide, calls for government action …

Features of the built environment are increasingly being recognised as potentially important
determinants of obesity. This has come about, in part, because of advances in …

Ancestral experiences and evolutionary processes continue to influence the brain in ways
that may escape conscious awareness by contemporary adults. It is becoming increasingly …

There is an urgent need to address unhealthy dietary patterns at the population level. Poor
diet and physical inactivity are key drivers of the obesity pandemic, and they are among the …

The United States has set a national goal to eliminate health disparities. This article
emphasizes the importance of food systems in generating and exacerbating health …