comments

Strategies of some companies are fuelling the obesity crisis

Some companies and industries are fuelling the obesity crisis, through a variety of strategies that prioritise profitability and corporate brand value over public health, and, in the process, externalise significant costs.

RELATED ARTICLESExplain
⌅
Tackling obesity in the UK
⌃
Causes of obesity
■
Strategies of some companies are fuelling the obesity crisis
↳
Production and marketing choices favour profit over diet optimisation
↳
Public health interventions are often resisted
⇥
6. Food environment
⇥
Previous physical activities replaced by industrially generated energy
□
Genetic susceptibility to an obesogenic environment
□
Industrial way of life is obesogenic
□
Many individuals are consuming more energy than they are expending
□
Successive governments have made counterproductive policy choices
□
What is obesity?
□
Graph of this discussion
Enter the title of your article


Enter a short (max 500 characters) summation of your article
Enter the main body of your article
Lock
+Comments (0)
+Citations (15)
+About
Enter comment

Select article text to quote
welcome text

First name   Last name 

Email

Skip