| Encourage the perception that large portion sizes are anti social Position1 #371534 Encouraging the perception that large portion sizes are anti social might help to reduce the portion sizes that people prepare and consume at home. |
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- CitationsAdd new citationList by: CiterankMapLink[1] Obesity: The McKinsey economic perspective
Author: Mike Gibney
Publication info: 2014 November, 26
Cited by: David Price 1:13 AM 4 January 2015 GMT
Citerank: (7) 348770Tackling obesityMany policy interventions have been suggested to address the obesity crisis across multiple studies—and indeed many such measures have been implemented, and are being implemented, now. There's recognition too that these interventions need to be part of a coherent and comprehensive whole systems strategy [4]; with some grounds for optimism that such an approach has the potential to accomplish a significant reduction in the prevalence of obesity in the UK across the next decade. [2]565CA4D9, 371533How to regulate the portion sizes of food eaten at home?The average energy intake from eating out accounts for only around 10 per cent of total energy intake (with the total energy intake per person estimated to be an average of 2,192 kcal per person per day versus an approximate energy intake from eating out of 220 kcal per person per day).8FFB597, 371535Anti-social campaign worked well against smokingThe well-organized and sustained campaign to portray smoking as an anti-social activity appears to have played a significant role in the reduction of smoking (and therefore might play a similarly effective role in reducing the portion sizes and prepared and consumed at home).1198CE71, 399546Tackling obesityMany policy interventions have been suggested to address the obesity crisis across multiple studies—and indeed many such measures have been implemented, and are being implemented, now. There's recognition too that these interventions need to be part of a coherent and comprehensive whole systems strategy [4]; with some grounds for optimism that such an approach has the potential to accomplish a significant reduction in the prevalence of obesity in the UK across the next decade. [2]565CA4D9, 399689How to regulate the portion sizes of food eaten at home?The average energy intake from eating out accounts for only around 10 per cent of total energy intake (with the total energy intake per person estimated to be an average of 2,192 kcal per person per day versus an approximate energy intake from eating out of 220 kcal per person per day).8FFB597, 399785Encourage the perception that large portion sizes are anti socialEncouraging the perception that large portion sizes are anti social might help to reduce the portion sizes that people prepare and consume at home.959C6EF, 399858Anti-social campaign worked well against smokingThe well-organized and sustained campaign to portray smoking as an anti-social activity appears to have played a significant role in the reduction of smoking (and therefore might play a similarly effective role in reducing the portion sizes and prepared and consumed at home).1198CE71 URL:
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| Excerpt / Summary We need somehow to create an environment where large portion sizes are anti social. |