Big Food corporations and the nutritional marketing and regulation of processed foods

@inproceedings{Scrinis2015BigFC,
  title={Big Food corporations and the nutritional marketing and regulation of processed foods},
  author={Gyorgy Scrinis},
  year={2015}
}
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Ultraprocessed Products as Food Fortification Alternatives: A Critical Appraisal from Latin America
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The implications of adding micronutrients to UPPs with excessive amounts of critical nutrients associated with NCDs are described and recommendations for legislation and policies are provided.
Market strategies used by processed food manufacturers to increase and consolidate their power: a systematic review and document analysis
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The typological framework developed is well-placed to inform general and jurisdiction-specific market strategy analyses of dominant processed food manufacturers, and has the potential to assist in identifying countervailing public policies that could be used to address market-power imbalances as part of efforts to improve population diets.
Food consumption, lifestyle patterns, and body mass index of a group of white South African students
The Determinants of Discretionary Front-of-Package Food Labelling
Front-of-package (FOP) nutrition labelling is pervasive in Canada and occurs at the discretion of manufacturers. While there is evidence to suggest FOP labelling can impact product sales, other work…
Genome‐Nutrition Divergence: Evolving understandings of the malnutrition spectrum
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The human diet over time is surveyed to characterize what constitutes a healthy diet and to contrast dietary quality in modern food systems, and food systems shifts are explored as a means to realign modern diets with the nutritional patterns on which the authors are adapted to thrive.
No. 01: Hungry Cities of the Global South
The recent inclusion of an urban Sustainable Development Goal in the Post-2015 UN Development Agenda represents an important acknowledgement of the reality of global urbanization and the many social,…

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