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Title: To quell obesity, who should regulate food marketing to children?
Issue Date: 30-May-2013
Publisher: BioMed Central
Description: <p>Abstract</p> <p>The global hegemony of the United States in the production and marketing of food, while a marvel of economic success, has contributed to the epidemic of obesity that is particularly afflicting children. So far the U.S. government has declined to regulate the aggressive ways in which food producers market high-energy, low-nutrition foods to young people. That public-health responsibility has been left to an industry-created scheme of self-regulation that is deeply flawed; there is a compelling need for government involvement. The issue is certain to be raised by health advocates at a U.S. Federal Trade Commission meeting in mid-July to discuss the self-regulatory approach, but the outlook for remedies to emerge from the meeting is not encouraging.</p>
URI: http://koha.mediu.edu.my:8181/jspui/handle/123456789/6352
Other Identifiers: http://www.globalizationandhealth.com/content/1/1/9
http://www.doaj.org/doaj?func=openurl&genre=article&issn=17448603&date=2005&volume=1&issue=1&spage=9
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