Food Industry

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  Subject Areas on Research

  • A crisis in the marketplace: how food marketing contributes to childhood obesity and what can be done. 
  • A review of environmental influences on food choices. 
  • A test of different menu labeling presentations. 
  • An accountability evaluation for the industry's responsible use of brand mascots and licensed media characters to market a healthy diet to American children. 
  • Are 'competitive foods' sold at school making our children fat? 
  • Baby food industry lobbies WHO on breast feeding advice. 
  • Breakfast cereal industry pledges to self-regulate advertising to youth: will they improve the marketing landscape? 
  • Building infrastructure to document the U.S. food stream. 
  • Can government regulate portion sizes? 
  • Changes in food advertisements during 'prime-time' television from 1991 to 2006 in the UK and Canada. 
  • Choosing front-of-package food labelling nutritional criteria: how smart were 'Smart Choices'? 
  • Creating healthy food and eating environments: policy and environmental approaches. 
  • Food industry front groups and conflicts of interest: the case of Americans Against Food Taxes. 
  • Front-of-package nutrition labeling--an abuse of trust by the food industry? 
  • Government intervention and the nation's diet: the slippery slope of inaction. 
  • Industry progress to market a healthful diet to American children and adolescents. 
  • Influence of food companies' brand mascots and entertainment companies' cartoon media characters on children's diet and health: a systematic review and research needs. 
  • Mitigating the health risks of dining out: the need for standardized portion sizes in restaurants. 
  • Mortality and Health Outcomes in North Carolina Communities Located in Close Proximity to Hog Concentrated Animal Feeding Operations. 
  • Neighborhood racial composition, neighborhood poverty, and the spatial accessibility of supermarkets in metropolitan Detroit. 
  • Obesity and public policy. 
  • Obesity: a public health approach. 
  • Patchy progress on obesity prevention: emerging examples, entrenched barriers, and new thinking. 
  • Pop musicians boycott Nestlé promotion. 
  • Portion sizes and beyond--government's legal authority to regulate food-industry practices. 
  • Predicting support for restricting food marketing to youth. 
  • Public policy and obesity: the need to marry science with advocacy. 
  • Redefining "child-directed advertising" to reduce unhealthy television food advertising. 
  • Response of the food and beverage industry to the obesity threat. 
  • The food industry and self-regulation: standards to promote success and to avoid public health failures. 
  • The food industry's solution to the obesity epidemic: take a walk. 
  • The impact of food prices on consumption: a systematic review of research on the price elasticity of demand for food. 
  • The impact of subgroup type and subgroup configurational properties on work team performance. 
  • The perils of ignoring history: Big Tobacco played dirty and millions died. How similar is Big Food? 
  • The trans-fat ban--food regulation and long-term health. 
  • Thinking forward: the quicksand of appeasing the food industry. 
  • Work related injuries in small scale commercial fishing.