As the US moves to limit consumption of sweetened beverages, producers focus on overseas markets and alternative product sales

January 1, 2008 | By

Following recent efforts to address obesity by banning transfats and proposing a moratorium on the opening of new fast food restaurants, in late December of 2007 San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom proposed a tax on soda. The sweetened beverage fee would be applied to big box retailers who sell sweetened soda and other beverages; …

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Commentary: Shifting priorities in public health: from changing lifestyles to changing political, economic, and social circumstances

January 1, 2008 | By

Public health researchers seeking to focus greater attention on the role of corporate practices in health and disease often encounter the argument that the only significant modifiable determinant of health is lifestyle.  In this commentary, social epidemiologist Sandro Galea, MD, DrPH, Associate Professor at the University of Michigan School of …

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Youth-Involved Street Survey of Health Enhancing and Health Damaging Messages in Disparate Urban Neighborhoods Using Digital Technology

January 1, 2008 | By , ,

Neighborhood environments can both promote health (Ewing 2005) and encourage disease (Satterthwaite 1993). Differences in presence of health enhancing and health damaging messages and environments may account for some differences in health among neighborhoods with different socioeconomic and racial/ethnic characteristics (Kipke et al. 2007; Macdonald, Cummins, and Macintyre 2007; Pasch …

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Books on Corporations and Health, 2007

January 1, 2008 | By

With thousands of new books published each year, it’s hard to find titles of interest. To help readers sort through the piles, we present an idiosyncratic list of 10 books published in 2007 (or early 2008) that address the relationships among corporations, markets, government and health. These books may help …

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Campaign Profile: The Public Health Advocacy Institute

December 1, 2007 | By

Are the lessons learned in the legal and advocacy fights against Big Tobacco relevant to changing the practices of the food industry that contribute to obesity? What are the benefits and limitations of litigation against producers of unhealthy foods? On what legal grounds is the food industry most vulnerable to …

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New York State Assemblyman Felix Ortiz, The Marin Institute and Corporations and Health Watch Hold Press Conference on Alcohol Advertising in the New York City Public Transit System

December 1, 2007 | By

On November 8, 2007 New York State Assemblyman Felix Ortiz, Marin Institute and Corporations and Health Watch held a joint press conference at the New York City Hall steps to draw attention to recent research on alcohol advertising in the New York City transit system. At this event, a representative …

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