Assessment of Food Industry Promises to Address Childhood Obesity
In 2005, the World Health Organization asked Alexandra Lewin, Lauren Lindstrom and Marion Nestle at the Department of Nutrition, Food Studies and Public Health at New York University to develop case studies of the actual practices of two leading food companies, McDonald’s and Kraft Foods, in marketing foods to children. In their report, they concluded that “we see no way out of this dilemma [between the need to change children’s diets and the food companies need to make profits] except through regulatory intervention.”
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