Advancing health equity efforts to reduce obesity: changing the course

SK Kumanyika - Annual review of nutrition, 2022 - annualreviews.org
Population-based solutions are needed to stabilize and then reverse the continued upward
trends in obesity prevalence in the US population and worldwide. This review focuses on the …

Citizen science approaches to crowdsourcing food environment data: A scoping review of the literature

J Monaghan, K Backholer, AL McKelvey… - Obesity …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Globally, the adoption and implementation of policies to improve the healthiness of food
environments and prevent population weight gain have been inadequate. This is partly …

Effect of a new graphically modified Nutri-Score on the objective understanding of foods' nutrient profile and ultra-processing–a randomised controlled trial

B Srour, S Hercberg, P Galan, C Monteiro… - MedRxiv, 2022 - medrxiv.org
Context and objective When considering the health-related impact of foods, nutrient profile
(content in salt, sugar, fibre, etc.) and (ultra-) processing are two complementary dimensions …

Shifting the social determinants of food insecurity during the COVID-19 pandemic: the Australian experience

C Zorbas, J Browne, A Chung, A Peeters, S Booth… - Food security, 2023 - Springer
We aimed to explore experiences of government-led actions on the social determinants of
food insecurity during Australia's COVID-19 pandemic response (which included novel, yet …

Strengthening local government policies to address health inequities: perspectives from Australian local government stakeholders

S Schultz, C Zorbas, A Peeters, S Yoong… - International Journal for …, 2023 - Springer
Background With their close connection to community and increasing preventive health
remit, local governments are well positioned to implement policies and programs to address …

An umbrella review of the acceptability of fiscal and pricing policies to reduce diet-related Noncommunicable disease

LE Barry, F Kee, J Woodside, J Cawley… - Nutrition …, 2023 - academic.oup.com
Context Poor diet has been implicated in a range of noncommunicable diseases. Fiscal and
pricing policies (FPs) may offer a means by which consumption of food and non-alcoholic …

A Black American Nutrition Scholar and Advocate: My Journey

SK Kumanyika - Annual review of nutrition, 2024 - annualreviews.org
I started my journey as a nutrition scholar in 1974 when I began PhD studies at Cornell
University. My journey has been rich with opportunity. I engaged in research on diet-related …

Community lived experience should be central to food systems policy

C Zorbas, D Jeyapalan, V Nunez, K Backholer - Nature food, 2023 - nature.com
Lived experience research recognizes the inherent expertise of communities, and
challenges existing power imbalances in policy processes. Yet, without a strong rationale for …

[PDF][PDF] A critical analysis of representations of inequalities in childhood obesity in Australian health policy documents

A Chung, C Zorbas, A Peeters, K Backholer, J Browne - 2021 - dro.deakin.edu.au
A Critical Analysis of Representations of Inequalities in Childhood Obesity in Australian Health
Policy Documents Original Artic Page 1 A Critical Analysis of Representations of Inequalities in …

Evolution of Food and Nutrition Policy: A Tasmanian Case Study from 1994 to 2023

S Murray, F Gale, D Adams, L Dalton - Nutrients, 2024 - mdpi.com
Food security is a concept with evolving definitions and meanings, shaped by contested
knowledge and changing contexts. The way in which food security is understood by …