Child and adolescent obesity

NB Lister, LA Baur, JF Felix, AJ Hill, C Marcus… - Nature Reviews …, 2023 - nature.com
The prevalence of child and adolescent obesity has plateaued at high levels in most high-
income countries and is increasing in many low-income and middle-income countries …

Environmental risk factors of type 2 diabetes—An exposome approach

JWJ Beulens, MGM Pinho, TC Abreu, NR den Braver… - Diabetologia, 2022 - Springer
Type 2 diabetes is one of the major chronic diseases accounting for a substantial proportion
of disease burden in Western countries. The majority of the burden of type 2 diabetes is …

Smart food policies for obesity prevention

C Hawkes, TG Smith, J Jewell, J Wardle, RA Hammond… - The lancet, 2015 - thelancet.com
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 …

Front-of-package nutrition labelling policy: global progress and future directions

R Kanter, L Vanderlee, S Vandevijvere - Public health nutrition, 2018 - cambridge.org
With the start of the 21st century, concomitant with the emerging global obesity epidemic and
the greater abundance of ultra-processed foods in the marketplace (8, 9), the number of both …

Is obesity policy in England fit for purpose? Analysis of government strategies and policies, 1992–2020

DRZ Theis, M White - The Milbank Quarterly, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Policy Points This analysis finds that government obesity policies in England have largely
been proposed in a way that does not readily lead to implementation; that governments …

Trends in child and adolescent obesity prevalence in economically advanced countries according to socioeconomic position: a systematic review

A Chung, K Backholer, E Wong, C Palermo… - Obesity …, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
Recent obesity trends in children and adolescents suggest a plateau. However, it is unclear
whether such trends have been experienced across socioeconomic groups. We analysed …

Why are some population interventions for diet and obesity more equitable and effective than others? The role of individual agency

J Adams, O Mytton, M White, P Monsivais - PLoS medicine, 2016 - journals.plos.org
Why Are Some Population Interventions for Diet and Obesity More Equitable and Effective
Than Others? The Role of Individual Agency | PLOS Medicine Skip to main content …

Holding no-one back: the nutrition equity framework in theory and practice

N Nisbett, J Harris, K Backholer, P Baker… - Global Food …, 2022 - Elsevier
Equity remains poorly conceptualised in current nutrition frameworks and policy
approaches. We draw on existing literatures to present a novel Nutrition Equity Framework …

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 …

Policy implementation and priorities to create healthy food environments using the Healthy Food Environment Policy Index (Food-EPI): A pooled level analysis across …

E Pineda, MP Poelman, A Aaspõllu, M Bica… - The Lancet Regional …, 2022 - thelancet.com
Background Food environments have been recognised as highly influential on population
diets. Government policies have great potential to create healthy food environments to …